WSJ’s Wolfe resigns to join Palantir board

Alexandra Wolfe

Alexandra Wolfe has resigned from The Wall Street Journal to join the board of directors of Palantir.

Palantir, which is expected to go public soon, provides software to spy agencies and governments for surveillance purposes.

After graduating from Duke University, Wolfe worked as a staff reporter for the New York Observer, The Wall Street Journal and then Condé Nast Portfolio. “The Valley of the Gods” is her first book.

As a freelancer, she wrote regular columns for Bloomberg Businessweek, features for Travel + Leisure and Departures, and has written cover stories for Vanity Fair and Town & Country.

She is a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal’s Review section, where she writes the weekly profile column Weekend Confidential.

She is the daughter of novelist Tom Wolfe.

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.