Fortune hires Banicki as head of video

Adam Banicki

Fortune magazine has hired Adam Banicki as its head of video.

Banicki is currently the senior executive producer of YouTube, where he oversees The Wall Street Journal’s main channel, as well as its Journalists as Creators program.

Banicki joined the Journal after managing editorial video teams at Insider, Vice Media, New York Magazine and Fatherly.

He attended DePaul University, the School of Visual Arts and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

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.