WSJ video journalist Mirza hired by Washington Post

Atthar Mirza

Washington Post editorial video director Micah Gelman, deputy video director Phoebe Connelly and video creative director Osman Malik sent out the following announcement on Monday:

The Video department is excited to announce that Atthar Mirza, an animator and video journalist at The Wall Street Journal, will join The Post as a video graphics editor.
Prior to The Journal, Atthar was an Animation Fellow at The Atlantic. At The Atlantic, Atthar created virtual reality videos, worked on a magazine cover story about the Mona Lisa, and animated and produced “A Visual History of Light.” The “Light” project won a Vimeo Staff Pick, recognition sought by filmmakers and animators around the world. Atthar is a graduate of the University of Virginia and holds a B.S. in Architecture & Design Thinking.
Please welcome Atthar to the video graphics team on October 22.

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.