Barron’s hires Russell as assistant editor

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

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We’re pleased to announce that Emily Russell is joining the Barron’s commentary team as an assistant editor.
Emily joins us from The Week, where she was writing and editing commentary. She is a graduate of American University and the Columbia Journalism School. She was a Delacorte Magazine Fellow at the Columbia Journalism Review in 2022-2023. She grew up in New Orleans.
Emily will be based in New York and report to Matt Peterson. Please join us in welcoming her to the newsroom. She starts Tuesday.

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.