WSJ’s Facebook reporter moving to enterprise beat

Deepa Seetharaman

Deepa Seetharaman, who covers Facebook, LinkedIn and other technology companies for The Wall Street Journal’s global technology bureau, is moving to an enterprise reporting beat focused on social media.

Seetharaman has been at The Journal since March 2015.

She previously worked for Reuters, most recently covering e-commerce, including companies such as Amazon and eBay, in San Francisco as well as the U.S. auto industry in Detroit. Seetharaman was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist in 2012 for reporting on the United Auto Workers union’s financial woes.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.

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.