WSJ hires Tilley to cover Microsoft

Aaron Tilley

The Wall Street Journal has hired Aaron Tilley to cover Microsoft.

He will start next month and be based in San Francisco.

Tilley has been at The Information since December 2017, covering Apple and the broader hardware sector.

“Over the past two years, I’ve worked on some of the best stories of my career all thanks to The Information’s model—making people pay for information they can’t get anywhere else. It was painful deciding to leaving one of the best jobs I’ve ever had,” wrote Tilley on Twitter.

Tilley was previously reporting for Forbes, where he got the scoop on Apple making its first wireless Bluetooth chip and did a series of in-depth pieces on how artificial intelligence is changing the chip world.

Tilley had been at Forbes since April 2013, first as an assistant producer. Before that, he interned at the San Francisco Business Times, GreenBiz Group and Seattle Business magazine.

He is a University of Washington graduate in international studies.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.