WSJ hires Toplensky as Heard columnist in London

Rochelle Toplensky

Rochelle Toplensky has been hired by the Wall Street Journal to be a columnist for “Heard on the Street” in London.

She will cover European banks and EU antitrust issues.

She joined from the Financial Times where she reported from Brussels on antitrust, tax, energy and the environment. She previously worked on the FT’s Lex and Markets teams in London.

A Canadian trained CPA with an M.B.A. from Oxford, she worked in internet and telecom companies before journalism.

She also holds a master’s degree in financial journalism from City University in London.

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.