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Adweek brand editor Pearl departing for Business of Fashion

Diana Pearl

Adweek brand editor Diana Pearl is leaving the publication to join Business of Fashion.

She will start her new job next week.

“Covering the fashion and beauty industries has been one of my favorite aspects of my job at Adweek,” she wrote on Twitter. “I’m really looking forward to focusing on it and working at a publication I’ve long read and admired.”

She was also managing editor of Brandweek. Pearl covered the business of brands, with notable reports on the waning influence of Victoria’s Secret, the rise of Casper and more.

Previously, she was a writer and reporter at People magazine.

She has a degree in magazine journalism and history from Syracuse University.

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.

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