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Hirschhorn joins Barron’s as ME for news

Dan Hirschhorn

Dan Hirschhorn has been hired by Barron’s to be its managing editor for news.

He started on Monday.

Hirschhorn will lead daily digital programming and news planning for Barron’s, reporting to editor Katherine Bell and working closely with the other editors and the audience team.

Most recently, Hirschhorn was the director of news at Time and Time Inc., where over the course of five years he built Time’s first-ever digital news desk and expanded it to serve more than a dozen Time Inc. brands.

Earlier in his career he was a political reporter for Politico and The Daily, and his work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post.

He graduated from Brandeis 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.

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