WSJ reporter Stancati moves to Southern Europe beat

Margherita Stancati

Margherita Stancati, a Wall Street Journal reporter who has been covering the Middle East, is now based in Rome and covering Southern Europe.

She joined the Journal in 2013.

Stancati had been based Kabul, covering that country’s critical security and political transition as U.S.-led coalition forces withdraw.

Stancati, a graduate of Oxford University, speaks Persian in addition to her native Italian. She worked in Iran before joining the Journal first as a news assistant in Rome, and then as the editor of India Real Time in New Delhi.

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.