WSJ hires USA Today’s Rivera for audience voices team

Josh Rivera

The Wall Street Journal has hired Josh Rivera to be part of its audience strategy team leading audience voices and community.

He is currently the engagement editor at USA Today.

As engagement editor, River is the liaison between readers and USA Today editors to make sure their voices are part of the national dialogue. As Opinion NOW editor, he works on commentary on the latest news or trending items.

He is also the coordinator of opinion content from across the USA Today Network and a member of the editorial board.

Rivera has been at USA Today since May 2016.

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.