OLD Media Moves

WSJ’s Lewellyn becomes development producer

Amanda Lewellyn

Amanda Lewellyn of The Wall Street Journal is becoming its development producer, helping to test and launch new video initiatives.

She has been fill-in host and producer for the “Tech News Briefing” podcast at the paper. Zoe Thomas is now the host.

Lewellyn has been at The Journal since November 2019, producing across multiple podcasts, including “Tech News Briefing” and “What’s News.” Her work includes building organizational infrastructure and incubating new concepts for coverage.

She also has helped bring notable tech columnist Joanna Stern’s work to the podcast and highlighted audience voices on the show for the first time.

Lewellyn previously worked at The Skimm, where she was founding producer of its new daily news podcast “Skimm This.”

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.

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