Categories: OLD Media Moves

Dallas Biz Journal hires new creative director

Rob Schneider, a designer at the Dallas Morning News, has been hired as creative director of the Dallas Business Journal.

Charles Apple writes, “A 1995 graduate of Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo., Rob began his career as a designer and sports editor for the St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press. He moved to the Omaha World-Herald in 1998 and then to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1999 to become weekend sports editor.

“He moved to the Morning News in 2003 as design editor for sports. He was promoted to presentation director in 2006. He redesigned the Morning News in 2008 and the Providence Journal in 2009.

“In addition, Rob was president of the Society for News Design last year.”

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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.