WSJ reporter Whelan to cover Disney, studios

Robbie Whelan

Wall Street Journal reporter Robbie Whelan, who has been covering COVID-19 for the past 15 months, is moving to cover Walt Disney Co. and other Hollywood studios.

He will start Jan. 18.

Whelan has also been a correspondent based in Mexico City, covering corporate news, economics, politics, migration, crime and general news. From April 2010 until October 2016, he worked as a reporter in the Journal’s New York City office, covering the U.S. housing market, commercial real estate companies, real-estate stocks and the logistics and shipping industry.

Previously, Robbie worked for the Baltimore Sun and the The Daily Record of Baltimore. He is originally from Pittsburgh.

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.