Barrow joins WSJ publishing desk on Friday

Wall Street Journal editing chief Alexandra Kaptik sent out the following announcement on Tuesday:

Hi,
We’ll welcome a new member of the Publishing Desk on Friday.
Eric Barrow has more than 20 years of experience as a journalist, spending the past 15 years as an editor for the New York Daily News. In 2016, he was named Daily News sports editor, directing a team of 40 editors, writers and designers. As a writer, he won the 2015 NY AP award for best feature and an NABJ Salute to Excellence award for a piece on guns and gang violence in Brooklyn. He received an APSE award in 2007 in the Best Explanatory category, coming in second place in the country. Eric is a native New Yorker, having grown up on the Upper West Side. He and his wife have seven-year-old twin girls and live in Greenwich, Conn.
Please make Eric feel at home on the desk.
Lex

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.