Barron’s hires Rowe as an editor

JJ Thompson Rowe

Barron’s editor in chief David Cho sent out the following:

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We are pleased to announce J.J. Thompson Rowe has joined Barron’s as a full-time editor, joining the digital editing desk after working as a contractor since April. J.J. works an evening shift for us, ending her day at 8 p.m.
In addition to editing for the site, J.J. oversees the homepage and mobile alerts in the evenings.
J.J. joins after spending most of her career with The Associated Press in New York, where she worked as a national news editor and shift supervisor. As a freelancer, she wrote for The Wall Street Journal and worked as a curator for Facebook.
While she has bungee jumped out of a hot air balloon in New Jersey and gone skydiving in New Zealand, she generally prefers quieter (and safer!) pursuits such as kayaking on a quiet lake.
Please join us in welcoming her to Barron’s.

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.