WSJ’s Bowers hired by Philly Inquirer as director of product

Becky Bowers

Wall Street Journal strategy editor Becky Bowers has been hired by the Philadelphia Inquirer as director of product.

She will start at the end of April.

“I’m heartbroken to leave my dear colleagues at The Wall Street Journal, who I’ve learned so much from over the last seven years,” she wrote on Twitter.

Bowers has been with the Journal since September 2014, first as editor of real time economics and then as deputy global economics editor. She has been the strategy editor since January 2020, ensuring digital journalism and ensuring newsroom initiatives are translated into coverage.

She previously spent more than 12 years at the St. Petersburg Times/Tampa Bay Times, including stints as deputy business editor and as Politifact digital operations manager.

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.