Adweek hires Business Insider’s Joe as editor in chief

Ryan Joe

Adweek has named Ryan Joe as its new editor in chief.

He will report to chief content officer Zoë Ruderman.

Joe has covered the advertising industry extensively for more than 15 years, examining the challenges, practices, and business of data-driven marketing, most recently serving as senior advertising editor at Business Insider.

“As our new editor in chief, Ryan will help lead the way in our continuing efforts to elevate the Adweek newsroom to deliver even more incisive, data-driven insights and intelligence to our audience across multiple platforms,” said Ruderman.

Prior to his role at Business Insider, Joe was managing editor at AdExchanger for eight years and senior editor at Haymarket Media Group’s Direct Marketing News for two years.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from UCLA and an MFA in writing 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.