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WSJ reporter joins Inquirer as deputy editorial page editor

Paul Davies, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal who covered the federal courts and white-collar crime, is leaving the paper to become deputy editorial page editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

A short story in the Inquirer stated, “He worked at the Philadelphia Daily News from 1997 to 2004, where his stories on predatory lending led to the convictions of two people, and was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award.

“Jackson said Davies’ reporting showed a passion for helping the helpless that will make him a very good editorial writer and editor.

“Davies has also been a reporter for Worth magazine; the New Haven, Conn., Register; the Lakeland, Fla., Ledger; and the Salisbury, Md., Times. He began his career as an Inquirer suburban correspondent.

“He graduated from the University of Delaware and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia.”

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.