Barron’s hires new editorial design director

Chris Mihal has been hired by Barron’s as its new editorial design director.

Mihal will lead the newsroom design department to re-imagine Barron’s products for new audiences and platforms.

Mihal comes from Variety, where as creative director, he oversaw art, photography, and design, and turned the 110-year-old entertainment-industry weekly into an award-winning print and online publication known for its visual storytelling and arresting covers.

Prior to Variety, and after studying journalism graphics at Ball State University, Mihal worked at newspapers in Phoenix, Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta, and the Northeast, helping to lead numerous redesigns and re-brands in editorial, marketing and advertising.

His work has been recognized by the Society of Publication Designers, the Society for News Design, American Photography, American Illustration, and Communication Arts.

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.