Barske stepping down as editor of Business Record

Emily Barske is stepping down as editor of the Business Record in Des Moines, Iowa.

She will start a part-time role focused on special projects in July while she pursues a master’s degree in nonfiction narrative writing from the University of Georgia.

The Business Record hired Barske as associate editor in 2019. Barske was the news editor at the Marshalltown Times-Republican. She previously was an intern at the Omaha World-Record in Nebraska.

Barske is a graduate of Iowa State University where she was editor in chief of the student newspaper.

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.