NY Times hires Barbieri as deputy biz editor

Rich Barbieri

New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following announcement on Tuesday:

I’m pleased to announce that Rich Barbieri will join us as deputy business editor.
Rich comes to us from CNN, where he is executive editor of CNN Business. He has been at CNN for about 12 years, and now oversees a global team of about 50 reporters and editors covering companies, economics, technology, media, markets and the workplace. Before that he was managing editor of CNNMoney.
Previously, Rich worked at Crain’s New York Business, as managing editor, and The Associated Press, also in New York. He spent a bunch of years at American Lawyer Media, where his gigs included editor-in-chief of Legal Times, in Washington.
Rich will help us attain our digital and storytelling goals as we continue to build our business coverage for current and future readers.
Rich serves on the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Board of Advisors and is on the board of SABEW.
So please join me in welcoming Rich. He starts on Oct. 14.

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.