WSJ/Dow Jones names editor overseeing global banks

Nell Henderson

Dow Jones Newswires executive editor Almar Latour sent out the following email to the staff:

I’m pleased to announce that Nell Henderson is appointed Editor, Global Central Banks. In this new role, she will oversee an expansion in central banks coverage for DJX, our new specialized real-time digital news service, and The Journal.
Nell joined the Journal as economics editor in January 2011, overseeing coverage of the Federal Reserve, fiscal policy and international economics. Previously, she covered the Fed as a reporter at the Washington Post, where she spent more than 20 years as a reporter and economics editor. Between the Journal and Post, Nell spent three years at McKinsey Global Institute.
Nell will remain based in Washington and will report to Jerry Seib for news matters and to Dave Pettit for DJX strategy and development.

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.