WSJ reporter Wernau joins health and science team

Julie Wernau

Wall Street Journal reporter Julie Wernau has joined its health and science team.

She was expelled from China in March 2020, where she wrote about China’s consumer market for the Journal in Beijing. Since arriving back in the U.S., she has been based in Chicago and pitching in on WSJ’s coverage of everything from the killing of George Floyd — reporting on the ground in Minneapolis, Chicago and Kenosha — to COVID-19’s impact on the restaurant industry and the food supply chain.

Previously, she covered emerging markets and commodities for the Journal in New York, including distressed debt in Venezuela, Mozambique and Argentina and frozen concentrated orange juice.

Wernau came to The Journal from Chicago, where she wrote about the energy sector for the Chicago Tribune.

A native of Connecticut, Julie spent the early part of her career on the crime beat at The Day in New London and writing about her hometown of Waterford for The Waterford Times.

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.