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WSJ names deputy editor for Personal Journal

Emily Nelson, the editor of the Personal Journal section of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff announcement:

I am delighted to announce the appointment of Laura Bird as deputy editor of Personal Journal.
As a news editor on Personal Journal for the last several years, Laura has worked on some of our most memorable stories. Laura elevates ideas with her remarkable ability to see a new angle and her fantastic visual storytelling. She has a rare mix of creativity and reporting instinct.
Laura joined the Journal as a reporter covering advertising and retailing. She has edited for Marketplace, Page One and Arena. She worked at CNBC as a news editor developing WSJ stories and booking guests. She has also worked as a reporter at adweek magazine and a copy editor at SPY magazine.
As always, we welcome your story ideas in Personal Journal. Please send pitches to Laura Bird and me.
Please join me in congratulating Laura.

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.