WSJ Pro hires Christie as publishing editor

Jim Christie

Jim Christie has been hired as a publishing editor with WSJ Pro in San Francisco.

He joined after nearly 19 years as a reporter with Reuters, where he covered major U.S. bankruptcy news, the finances of Western U.S. states and their local governments, California’s economy and general assignment news.

He was also a deputy editor for Reuters’ Global Markets Forum online community, producing a daily email newsletter on business, economic and geopolitical issues.

Christie also spent two years as a reporter at Investor’s Business Daily.

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.