WSJ taps Jones as deputy U.S. news coverage chief

Ashby Jones

Emily Nelson, U.S. coverage chief at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement on Friday:

I am thrilled to announce that Ashby Jones is named deputy U.S. news coverage chief. Ashby’s ability to drive big news stories is well established and will help accelerate our already ambitious coverage. He is a much admired editor who asks the smart questions and uncovers a path forward on a story. Among other accomplishments, Ashby helped lead the Journal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage this past year of President Trump’s hush-money payments.
Ashby has led the law bureau since April 2016, and before that worked for several years as a reporter and editor in the law group. He has been at the Journal since 2005.
He holds a law degree from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree from Haverford College. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Mandy, and their daughter, Evelyn.
We will now look for an editor to succeed Ashby running the law bureau.
Please join me in congratulating Ashby on his new role.

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.