CNN hires Warnes as data and graphics editor

Sophie Warnes

CNN has hired Sophie Warnes as a data and graphics editor.

She previously was at The Wall Street Journal as an audience editor. She joined The Journal in 2020 as a strategy editor for the visuals team.

Before that, she was a senior data journalist at the Office for National Statistics. Prior to joining ONS, Warnes was a web producer for ITN. She also served as a data journalist at both Wellcome Trust and Trinity Mirror Group PLC. She has also worked at Amaze as a data dashboarding consultant.

Warnes also held the post of digital production journalist at The Independent. In addition, she has also worked at other organizations, including The Financial Times and Financial Mail.

Warnes is a B.A. in multi-media journalism from Bournemouth University. She also holds a master’s degree in interactive journalism from City University London.

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.