Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ names new Wal-Mart reporter

Shelly Banjo, who now covers Connecticut and Westchester County for the greater New York section of The Wall Street Journal, is moving to Dallas later this year to cover Wal-Mart, a newspaper spokeswoman confirmed to Talking Biz News on Monday.

Banjo has been at the Journal since 2007. She has an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.

In 2010, Banjo wrote for The Journal about how she nearly died after running in the New York City Marathon.

The Dallas bureau has a new bureau chief, Leslie Eaton, who is the former deputy bureau chief.

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.