NY Times Opinion hires WSJ’s Serkez

Yaryna Serkez

Stuart Thompson, head of the Opinion visual journalism department at the New York Times, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday:

We’re pleased to announce Yaryna Serkez is joining the Opinion Graphics team as a graphics editor.
Yaryna (pronounced ya-REE-nah) is a full-stack data journalist. She spent the last three years creating interactive stories for The Wall Street Journal, where her daily responsibilities varied from data scraping and analysis to design and web development. During her time at the Journal, Yaryna produced many award-winning pieces, such as her visual analysis of the space industry, a map-based story about Arctic shipping routes, and an interactive explainer of China’s economic rise.
We’re excited to add Yaryna’s skill set to the team, which includes a sharp eye for design and an ability to create web-based 3D explorations. These technical skills will help push our creative flair through a busy year involving a new “crusade,” the Olympics and an election.
Yaryna will work remotely from Germany. She’ll start by joining us in New York for one month beginning around March 16.

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.