WSJ’s Zambelich departs for Baltimore Banner

Ariel Zambelich

Ariel Zambelich is leaving The Wall Street Journal to become visuals director at the Baltimore Banner.

Zambelich is a lead photo editor for The Journal, providing visual coverage for its D.C. and National bureaus. Prior to the Journal, she was the senior photo editor for The Intercept, the supervising editor of photography and art director for NPR Visuals, and a photo editor for Wired.

Ariel spent several years co-directing a documentary photography gallery in San Francisco and also co-edited Pictures on the Radio, a book featuring the work of the late photojournalist David P. Gilkey. She was also a freelance photojournalist covering communities in California and Washington, D.C.

She is a board member with the Authority Collective, and a general member of Diversify.Photo, organizations that focus on amplifying the voices of female-identifying and minority photographers and visual journalists. She was also a member of the 2019 Cohort of ONA’s Women’s Leadership Accelerator.

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.