Rob Wells
Reynolds Visiting Professor

Rob Wells is a Reynolds Visiting Professor at the University of South Carolina for the spring 2012 semester. He is teaching under a program sponsored by The Donald W Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism and the University of South Carolina.

Prior to this, he was deputy bureau chief of the Dow Jones Newswires/Wall Street Journal Washington bureau until November 2011, where he organized and edited real-time news coverage in the nation's capital.

Wells also had managed the 22-person Newswires Washington bureau since December 2006. He joined Dow Jones Newswires in May 2002 as deputy bureau chief, where he covered tax policy, oversaw election coverage and assisted in running the news bureau.

Beginning in 2010, Wells served as an adjunct professor at the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, where he taught a reporting class. He plans to return to the college as an adjunct professor in the fall of 2012.

Before coming to Dow Jones, Wells covered tax and banking policy for Bloomberg Business News for nearly four years. Before that, he worked for more than 11 years as a reporter for the Associated Press, in Carson City, Nev.; Fresno, Calif.; Pikeville, Ky.; New York City; and Washington, D.C.

Wells received a bachelor¹s degree in government and a minor in English from California State University, Sacramento, in 1984. He will begin his graduate studies at St. John's College in Annapolis in June 2012. A marathon runner and jazz bass student, Wells lives in Crownsville with his wife, Deborah St. Coeur, where they maintain a substantial jazz and blues music library.

On the Web:

Visiting professor to promote and expand USC's business journalism initiative with students and community (includes video)

David Cay Johnston: "Do ordinary things in extraordinary ways."

E-mail: Wellsrs@mailbox.sc.edu

Office:
Phone: 803.777.5232
Fax: 803.777.4103
Room: 4009

Office Hours:
M W, 4-5 p.m.
T TH 2-4 p.m.
And by appointment.

Syllabi:
Jour 463B - Making Sense of the Economy

Jour 563C - Business Journalism, Corporations and You: Real Time Financial Literacy