Chai returns to WSJ as senior editor on publishing desk

Barbara Chai

Barbara Chai has returned to The Wall Street Journal as a senior editor on the publishing desk.

She most recently has been head of arts and culture coverage at Dow Jones Media Group, which includes Barron’s and MarketWatch.com.

Chai was previously the managing editor of Speakeasy, The Journal’s pop culture news site. She managed a team of reporter-bloggers and editors and collaborated with the print WSJ editors and reporters daily.

Before running Speakeasy, she helped launch the WSJ Pro, CFO Journal and CIO Journal premium verticals, and she spent seven years as a WSJ general news editor in Brussels and Hong Kong.

Chai holds a master’s in creative writing from Hollins, where she taught undergraduate fiction and poetry writing as a teaching fellow. As an undergraduate, she studied politics and journalism at New York 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.