Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ reporter Knutson moving to biz side of company

Ryan Knutson

Wall Street Journal reporter Ryan Knutson, who has covered telecommunications and technology, is moving to a corporate position within Dow Jones & Co.

Starting Monday, Knutson will be working on strategic partnerships with companies such as Apple, Facebook and Google.

Based in New York, Knutson has been covering companies such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. Before joining The Journal, Knutson reported for a range of news outlets, including PBS “Frontline,” ProPublica and The Daily Graphic of Ghana.

At PBS, his work included an investigation into the high rate of accidental deaths among cellphone tower workers that earned him a spot as a Loeb Award finalist in 2013. He was also a Loeb Award finalist in 2014.

Knutson is a graduate of the University of Oregon

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.

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