WSJ hires Byrne as platform editor for visual storytelling

Brian Patrick Byrne

The Wall Street Journal has hired Brian Patrick Byrne from Insider to be a platform editor for visual storytelling.

He will start next week.

Byrne is currently a distribution editor at Insider.

Prior to joining Insider, he built a social media following of over 50,000 by posting YouTube videos and Twitter threads about K-pop, or Korean pop music.

He was previously supervising producer at NowThis, where he helped to oversee production of the brand’s Snapchat and TikTok videos. Digiday interviewed him about NowThis’ unprecedented success on TikTok, and his work was featured on CNN.

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.