WSJ’s Timiraos moving to economics team

Nick Timiraos, who writes about the U.S. mortgage and housing markets and federal housing policy for The Wall Street Journal, is moving to the paper’s economics team in Washington.

Timiraos, who is best known for his coverage of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, joined the Journal in 2006, and covered the 2008 presidential campaigns.

“After five years on the housing and mortgage beat, I’m thrilled to be joining the WSJ’s growing economics team in Washington as a national economics correspondent next month,” said Timiraos in an email Wednesday to Talking Biz News.

Timiraos is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he was editor of the student newspaper.

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.