WSJ hires Barber to cover Justice Department

Ryan Barber

The Wall Street Journal has hired Ryan Barber to cover the Justice Department.

Barber has been covering the Justice Department and courts on the federal law enforcement beat for Insider since March 2021.

He previously covered the same beat for The National Law Journal.

Barber previously covered Massachusetts politics for the Cape Cod Times, where he was named Newsroom Rising Star by the New England Society of Newspaper Editors.

He is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate.

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.