Iowa business paper hires Barske as associate editor

Emily Barske

The Business Record in Des Moines, Iowa, has hired Emily Barske as associate editor.

Barske is currently the news editor at the Marshalltown Times-Republican, where she has worked for the past year.

She previously was an intern at the Omaha World-Record in Nebraska.

Barske is a graduate of Iowa State University where she was editor in chief of the student newspaper.

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.