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WSJ hires Washington Post’s Paul to cover courts

Deanna Paul

The Wall Street Journal has hired Washington Post reporter Deanna Paul.

She will start on Jan. 13 and cover the Manhattan district attorney’s office and the New York attorney general’s office.

Paul covers national and breaking news for The Post. She was part of the newspaper’s team that was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting, revealing the vast number of unsolved homicides in America’s major cities.

Before joining The Post, she spent six years as a New York City prosecutor. Her work has also appeared in Wired, Rolling Stone, the Guardian and the Marshall Project.

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.

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