WSJ hires Barger as digital editor of Mansion section

Kerry Barger

The Wall Street Journal has hired Kerry Barger to be the digital editor of its Mansion section.

Barger has been the digital editor of The Real Deal in New York. She also spent three years as the social media editor of The Real Deal.

She previously worked as social engagement manager for Houlihan Lawrence and as editor in chief of Examiner Media in Putnam County, New York.

Barger is a graduate of Ithaca College, where she played varsity softball.

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.