WSJ’s Lee is joining NBC News

Wall Street Journal reporter Carol Lee is joining NBC News as a national political reporter, reports Hadas Gold of Politico.

Gold writes, “Lee is currently a White House correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. A former White House Correspondents’ Association president, Lee has been with the Journal since 2011, having previously covered the White House for POLITICO.

“Already a frequent presence on television, Lee will appear across all NBC platforms including MSNBC, an NBC spokesperson said. She starts in July.

“‘I have loved working at The Wall Street Journal for six years alongside journalists who are not only as good as it gets at their jobs, but really great colleagues and friends too,’ Lee said in a statement. ‘I am thrilled to be joining an exceptional team at NBC News and couldn’t be more excited to have this opportunity to grow as a journalist in new ways.'”

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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.