WSJ names Lambert its senior news editor

Wade Lambert

The Wall Street Journal has named Wade Lambert its senior news editor, making him responsible for all of the Journal’s operations in the evening.

Lambert has been night editor for the print edition. He will now also direct news gathering, publishing and platforms at night.

He joined The Journal’s copy desk in 1984 after graduating from the University of Missouri.

Lambert has held many reporting and editing roles at the paper, including deputy bureau chief in London from 2000 to 2002, Page One news editor from 2006 to 2010, and deputy editor of the Greater New York section from 2010 to 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.