Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ reporter Karp leaves for Billboard

Hannah Karp, a music industry reporter for The Wall Street Journal in its Los Angeles bureau, left the newspaper on Friday.

Karp is becoming the news director for Billboard, a music industry publication.

Karp had been with the Journal since 2004, covering a wide range of subjects including travel, sports, consumer product companies and most recently general news out of Southern California.

A native of Berkeley, California, Karp graduated with a bachelor’s in economics from Duke University and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern.

She joined the Journal’s London bureau as an intern in 2004 after a brief stint with Dow Jones Newswires in São Paulo.

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.