WSJ hires Peabody as enterprise visuals editor

Marcus Peabody

The Wall Street Journal has hired Marcus Peabody as a visuals editor for the enterprise team.

He was at New York Magazine, where he had a hybrid visuals and editorial product role. He worked on interactive story formats, designed two new home screens and built out a lot of illustrations, maps and graphics

He also teaches part time at the Parsons School of Design.

Marcus grew up in Cambridge England. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Glasgow School of Art and a master’s degree from the Rhode Island School of Design.

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.