OLD Media Moves

WSJ’s Lewellyn moves to new podcast role

Amanda Lewellyn

Amanda Lewellyn, a podcast host and audio producer at The Wall Street Journal, is moving to a new role at the paper.

Lewellyn is becoming an associate producer, helping develop new content ideas and further integrate podcasts with the broader WSJ newsroom.

She has been at The Journal since November 2019, producing across multiple podcasts, including the “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. And she filled in as host of the “Tech News Briefing” podcast starting in July.

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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