Ad Age creativity editor Diaz departs for McCann

Ann-Christine Diaz

Ann-Christine Diaz, creativity editor at Ad Age, has left the publication to become senior vice president and global director of creative excellence at McCann Worldgroup.

“I’m so grateful and blessed to have been part of the smartest, hardest working crew of ad and marketing journalists–who are also really fun and really good people,” said wrote on LinkedIn.

Diaz had been at Ad Age since 2011.

She previously was a staff reporter, special reports and features editor and managing editor at Creativity.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Amherst College and a master’s degree in journalism from New York University.

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.