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McAllister moves to WSJ’s strategy team as rankings data reporter

Kevin McAllister

Kevin McAllister has joined the newly-expanded strategy team at The Wall Street Journal as a rankings data reporter, focusing on expanding its use of structured data, rankings, interactive tools, automation

He previously worked in the Journal’s audience and analytics department, where he focused on video strategy. There he helped introduce new data application initiatives into the production process to highlight engagement and ran WSJ’s YouTube channel, growing the paper’s video audience off platform.

More recently, he worked closely with WSJ’s R&D and Journal Reports teams and oversaw the launch of automation-focused college comparison tool aimed at making the decision-making process easier students and families.

He writes a youth-centric personal finance column that publishes in the WSJ Wealth Report.

A University of Southern California graduate, he interned for CNN and NBC News while he was in college.

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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