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Hickey to join Sherwood as executive editor

Walter Hickey

Walter Hickey, deputy editor for data and analysis at Business Insider, has been hired by Sherwood, the media arm of retail trading platform, as executive editor.

Hickey worked with editors across the site to publish exclusive story packages on tons of subjects, from politics to weddings.

In 2022, Hickey won the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting for his work on Business Insider’s “I Escaped A Chinese Internment Camp” documenting the plight of Uyghurs in China.

He worked as chief culture writer at 538. He made a name for himself as a data journalist at Business Insider back in 2012, and holds the record for the most-viewed Business Insider slideshow of all time.

Hickey holds a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from William & Mary.

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.

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