WSJ hires Wellisz for economy team

Chris Wellisz

The Wall Street Journal has hired Chris Wellisz to join its team covering the economy.

He will be a news editor and will be based in Washington.

Wellisz has spent the last three years at the International Monetary Fund.

He previously worked 15 years at Bloomberg News, where he directed coverage of economies, policy and central banking in Asia and the U.S. in his roles as editor and team leader. Starting as a Singapore-based economy editor responsible for Southeast Asia, he was later promoted to Asia economy team leader and moved to Tokyo.

Wellisz also spent six years at Dow Jones, where he opened the Warsaw bureau and organized coverage of financial markets, economic data, companies, central bank and government agencies during Poland’s transition to a market economy.

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.