WSJ reporter leaving for B school

Anna Prior

Anna Prior, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal covering regulation and compliance for the wealth group, is leaving at the end of the week to attend business school.

Prior plans to get an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Her last day at the Journal is July 29.

She has been at Dow Jones & Co. since 2008, first as an intern in the Chicago bureau. Since then, she has worked for The Wall Street Journal Sunday, Smart Money magazine, as a hot stocks reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and as a reporter on the real-time news desk at The Journal covering retail.

She joined the The Journal’s wealth group in 2014 to cover various wealth management topics and has been in her current beat for the last 13 months.

Prior graduated from Northwestern University in journalism.

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.