WSJ names management bureau chief

Lynn Cook

Jamie Heller, the business editor of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement:

I’m thrilled to announce that Lynn Cook is taking over as Management Bureau Chief. Lynn joined the Journal in 2013 as deputy energy editor in Houston after reporting and editing stints at the Houston Chronicle, Forbes and Argus, the energy publication. In addition to her expertise in energy, she has covered health care, real estate and technology.
Her greatest hits at the Journal, often in collaboration with colleagues, include work exposing the dangers of oil trains, on oil company shipments to foreign buyers despite a then-ban on U.S. oil exports, and on the struggles of shale producers. She also was a leader on our Houston flood coverage, even as her family was dealing with it personally.
Lynn’s wide experience across subjects and companies as both an editor and reporter make her the ideal candidate for this crucial bureau that is now at the center of rapid trends from automation to upheaval in workplace culture.
A native Houstonian, Lynn studied journalism at Texas A&M University and was a Knight Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University. She has a passion for Hawaii, spinning and fajitas, not necessarily in that order. Please join me in congratulating her on this important, new role.

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.