WSJ names Hufford its manufacturing reporter

Austen Hufford

Austen Hufford has been named the manufacturing reporter at The Wall Street Journal.

Hufford, who has been working on the breaking news desk in New York, will move to the Chicago bureau.

He has been at The Journal since June 2015, covering market-moving U.S. news based on news releases and SEC filings. He has also worked on longer-term, data-based investigations and features.

Hufford is a graduate of the University of Michigan in economics. While in school, he worked on The Michigan Daily. He also interned at the Pacific Coast Business Times.

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.