WSJ names new M&A editor

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE

Jamie Heller, who had been the investing editor at The Wall Street Journal for the past three years, has been named the mergers and acquisitions editor, a spokeswoman for the paper confirmed Monday night.

She replaces Dennis Berman, who became corporations editor.

Before becoming the investing editor in July 2008, Heller spent two years as the paper’s law editor. She was also online deputy managing editor and assistant managing editor for five years.

Before joining the Journal, Heller worked for TheStreet.com, where she was editor of strategic ventures and also had other roles. She also had a year-long stint as a reporter for Smart Money magazine.

Heller, who has a bachelor’s in government from Dartmouth and a law degree from Yale, also worked for a year at the Rutland Herald in New Hampshire and spent another year with the Connecticut Law Tribune.

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.