Adams named A-hed editor at WSJ

Russell Adams

Russell Adams has been named The Wall Street Journal’s A-hed editor, overseeing its quirky front-page features.

He previously was deputy corporate bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal. He joined the Journal in 2005, starting as a reporter covering sports and the media industry before making the transition to editing in 2012.

As an editor he has periodically dipped back into reporting. He wrote an A-hed about a 23-year game of tag that was made into a movie, and another about why Americans can’t stop eating Jack in the Box tacos. He also wrote about the enduring appeal of “The Shawshank Redemption.”

A San Diego native, Adams has an undergraduate degree in Spanish from Georgetown University and a master’s in journalism from Columbia 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.