WSJ reporter Chapman to cover education

Ben Chapman

Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Chapman is now covering the education beat.

He joined the paper two years ago and has been covering criminal justice.

He previously was an award-winning reporter covering education for the New York Daily News.

A graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Chapman wrote more than 2,200 articles about New York City schools for the Daily News since joining the paper in 2009.

His work has also appeared in the Washington Post and the New York Times.

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.