Barron’s hires Philly Inquirer’s Adelman for investigative team

Jacob Adelman

Barron’s has hired Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Jacob Adelman to be a reporter on its investigations team.

He will start next month.

At the Inquirer, Adelman covered commercial real estate, economic development, and other financial news topics, with a focus on data and accountability.

At Barron’s, he will focus on writing investigative enterprise stories that dig into companies, industries and markets and hold accountable executives, industry officials, regulators and others in the business world.

Adelman previously worked as a reporter for the AP in Los Angeles and for Bloomberg News in Tokyo.

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.