Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ names new Afghan/Pakistan reporter

Yaroslav Trofimov, editor of Afghanistan and Pakistan for The Wall Street Journal, and Paul Beckett, Asia editor of the paper, sent out the following staff announcement on Tuesday:

We are delighted to announce that Margherita Stancati is joining the Afghanistan and Pakistan bureau of The Wall Street Journal as a correspondent. She will be based in Kabul, covering that country’s critical security and political transition as U.S.-led coalition forces withdraw and President Karzai’s successor is elected next year.
She will report to Yaroslav and work closely with Nathan Hodge, who becomes Senior Correspondent in the bureau, and with Saeed Shah, the Journal’s correspondent based in Islamabad.
Margherita, a graduate of Oxford University, speaks Persian in addition to her native Italian. She worked in Iran before joining the Journal first as a news assistant in Rome, and then as the editor of India Real Time in New Delhi.
Please join us in congratulating Margherita on her 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.