Guerrera departs Barron’s Group for GlobalData as editor in chief

Francesco Guerrera

Francesco Guerrera, head of international at Barron’s Group at Dow Jones & Co., is leaving the company to become editor in chief of GlobalData Plc.

GlobalData has news sites covering everything from health care to consumer goods, mining, finance, technology, defense and clean energy.

Guerrera was previously head of Europe for Dow Jones, which he rejoined in 2017.

He previously was associate editor and chief financial correspondent for Politico Europe, where he launched and led the publication’s coverage of financial services.

Previously, he was global finance editor at The Wall Street Journal, where he managed a team of 200 reporters and editors. Before then, he was in charge of the Financial Times’ coverage of the 2008 financial crisis as U.S. financial and business 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.