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Edmonton paper names new biz editor

Dan Barnes, a former sports columnist and currently an editorial writer for the Edmonton Journal, has been named business editor of the Canadian paper.

The announcement was made Wednesday by the paper’s editor, Lucinda Chodan, on Twitter.

Barnes has covered sports in Alberta for over 25 years, including the past decade as a columnist with The Edmonton Journal.

He has also covered the NHL and CFL beats for The Edmonton Sun and did brief stints as sports editor at three weekly newspapers in St. Albert, Rocky Mountain House and Innisfail.

Barnes covered biathlon and cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics and has also reported from Games in Sydney, Salt Lake City, Athens and Turin. He has covered six Stanley Cup Finals, seven Grey Cups, two World Hockey Championships, two Labatt Briers, two World Athletics Championships, two World Junior Hockey Championships and two World Figure Skating Championships.

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.