Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ reporter Crittenden leaving for strategy firm

Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Crittenden is leaving the paper to become a vice president with public strategy firm Mercury.

He will be based in Mercury’s Washington office and will start April 20.

At the Journal, Crittenden has covered financial markets, U.S. politics and financial regulatory affairs, as well as international economics and Congress.

“After being on the front lines of the major policy events of the last decade, I’m excited to use those experiences to shape strategy and define and solve problems for clients at the highest levels,” said Crittenden in a statement.

Crittenden’s reporting on the financial crisis and the Troubled Asset Relief Program won a SABEW Best in Business Award and a New York Press Club award.

Crittenden also worked for Dow Jones Newswires and SNL Financial. He is a graduate of Washington & Lee University.

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.