WSJ reporter Horwitz to write book on Facebook

Jeff Horwitz

Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz has signed a contract with Doubleday to write a book about social media company Facebook.

The book deal comes on the heels of articles Horwitz wrote for the Journal about Facebook based on internal documents he received from a whistleblower.

He will take a book leave after the end of the year. The book will examine how the company, through its algorithms and decision-making, affects human behavior and society.

Horwitz is a technology reporter for The Journal based in San Francisco, where he covers Facebook’s business and its impact on the world. His reporting has won repeated recognition, including a Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing award and a Gerald Loeb Awards finalist citation for articles he produced with two colleagues about Facebook’s struggle to police hate in India.

Previously he was a financial and enterprise reporter for the Associated Press in Washington, D.C., where his work earned him the Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize from the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship

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.