WSJ reporters who wrote “Billion Dollar Whale” start content company

The Wall Street Journal reporters who blew the lid off a $6 billion scandal are now launching a content company that promises to lay bare more true stories from around the world, reports Naman Ramachandran of Variety.

Ramachandran reports, “Tom Wright and Bradley Hope have teamed for Project Brazen, a multi-platform journalism studio that will uncover global true stories from the world of entertainment, business, crime and international politics via podcasts, books, documentaries, television series and films.

“Wright and Hope worked together at the Wall Street Journal and led the newspaper’s team that exposed the 1Malaysia Development Bhd. (1MDB) scandal, a $6 billion fraud that brought down a government and forced Goldman Sachs to pay the largest ever penalty under U.S. bribery laws.

“Sought by authorities for the 1MDB fraud is Malaysian playboy Jho Low, who befriended banks, Hollywood celebrities and politicians, and remains a fugitive to this day. Project Brazen was the codename Wright and Hope gave to a three-year investigation.”

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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.