The Drum promotes Barnett to associate editor

Kendra Barnett

Kendra Barnett has been promoted to be The Drum’s U.S. associate editor.

Based in New York, she manages day-to-day coverage of the U.S. market and works alongside global editors to shape editorial strategy across the publication. She also leads The Drum’s coverage on media, platforms, ad tech and data privacy.

Prior to joining The Drum, she spent a number of years working in the digital marketing space as an editorial lead and copywriter — and enjoyed a brief stint as an English teacher in Japan.

Barnett holds a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Cambridge.

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.