WSJ hires Varagur to write At Work column

Krithika Varagur

The Wall Street Journal has hired Krithika Varagur as its At Work columnist.

Varagur writes about the quirks, realities and frustrations of the workplace today.

She is a reporter and author who has covered topics ranging from dating apps to counterterrorism. She spent four years as a foreign correspondent in Southeast and South Asia, reporting on religion, politics and fundamentalism, especially in Indonesia, where she was a correspondent for the Guardian. She won the Marie Colvin Front Page Award for foreign correspondence in 2020.

Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, the Financial Times and more.

She is the author of “The Call: Inside the Global Saudi Religious Project,” published in April, which she reported from Indonesia, Nigeria and Kosovo. Varagur graduated from Harvard University and has a master’s degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where she was a Fulbright scholar.

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.