Barkin starts writing column for Business North Carolina

Dan Barkin has started writing a column every other month for Business North Carolina.

Barkin retired in May as managing editor of The News & Observer in Raleigh. He joined the N&O as business editor in 1996 after working as an assistant business editor at the Baltimore Sun. He has a master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland.

“We’re excited that Dan is sharing his viewpoint on key statewide business issues,” said Business North Carolina editor David Mildenberg. “He played a key role over the last two decades in making the N&O a distinctive regional newspaper. He has great insight and institutional knowledge about the rapid development of both North Carolina and the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill market.”

Barkin was also publisher of the Carroll County Times in Maryland for three years and deputy managing editor of The Virginian Pilot.

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.