WSJ hires Winkler to write for “Heard on the Street”

Elizabeth Winkler

Elizabeth Winkler of The Economist has been hired by The Wall Street Journal to write for its “Heard on the Street” column.

Winkler was the Marjorie Deane Fellow at The Economist, writing for the finance/economics, business and U.S. sections out of London. She also contributed for the past eight months while in Washington.

Winkler also previously worked for Quartz as a breaking news reporter in Washington.

She has also written for The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Foreign Policy, TechCrunch and The Millions.

Winkler graduated from Princeton University in 2011 and completed an M.A. in English literature at Stanford University in 2013.

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.