WSJ hires Vielkind to cover NY politics

Jimmy Vielkind

The Wall Street Journal has hired Jimmy Vielkind to cover New York politics.

Vielkind was a founding member of Politico New York’s state Capitol bureau and was named bureau chief in November 2013, when the operation was still known as Capital New York.

He has been reporting on state government and politics since 2008, first as a correspondent for the New York Observer and later for the Albany Times Union.

Vielkind also covered breaking news and Brooklyn for the New York Daily News while a college student, and he spent his first year after graduation as the nighttime police reporter for the Times Union.

At Politico, Vielkind coordinates the largest bureau at the capitol and reports and writes articles and analyses state politics. He has been a regular contributor to Politico New York’s magazine and a frequent guest on radio and television programs.

He has bachelor’s degree in urban studies from Columbia University and a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from SUNY Albany.

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.