The Free Press hires former WSJer Berman as publisher

Dennis Berman

The Free Press has hired former Wall Street Journal finance editor Dennis Berman as its president and publisher, reports Sara Fischer of Axios.

Berman left the Journal six years ago to join asset management company Lazard Ltd. as a managing director in financial advisory.

Berman, a Pulitzer-Prize winning editor and writer, served as the financial editor of The Journal and as a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average Committee since July 2015.

He has been a frequent contributor to business-news network CNBC. Previously, he served as The Journal’s business editor, global deals editor, and as an award-winning M&A reporter and columnist.

He earned his BA at the University of Pennsylvania and was a Hoover Institution Media Fellow at Stanford University.

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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.