Cole returning to WSJ as director of video content

Jarrard Cole

Jarrard Cole is returning to The Wall Street Journal to become its director of video content.

Cole has been vice president of content at Scenic for the past seven months.

Before that, Cole spent five years at The Journal as a video journalist. He is an Emmy-nominated director and veteran of virtual reality and interactive video who launched and oversaw The Journal’s virtual reality storytelling unit.

Cole has produced more than 15 virtual reality projects on topics ranging from aging in Tokyo to the peace process in Colombia to how the show “Modern Family” gets made. He worked on the WSJ’s enterprise projects for five years, contributing to award-wining investigations and series.

Cole is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate. While there, he was visual managing editor of The Daily Tar Heel as well as its photo editor.

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.