WSJ reporter Tau moving to Justice Department and FBI beat

Byron Tau

Wall Street Journal reporter Byron Tau is moving to a new beat — the Justice Department and the FBI — in the paper’s Washington bureau.

Tau has been covering Congress and politics for the paper.

Prior to joining the newspaper, Tau was a reporter at Politico from August 2011 to November 2014 where he covered the White House, lobbying, campaign finance and politics.

For two years, he served as Politico’s lobbying and campaign finance reporter, writing a daily newsletter on the lobbying industry in Washington.

Tau holds a master’s degree from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree from McGill University.

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.