WSJ names deputy media and marketing chief

Chris Stewart has been named deputy bureau chief of the media and marketing team at The Wall Street Journal.

Stewart, a former deputy editor at the New York Observer, starts his new job on Monday. He left the Observer back in March. Martin Peers, a former deputy media and marketing editor, became the top editor for the team last month.

Stewart is the author of Hunting the Tiger, a book about Zeljko “Arkan” Raznatovic, the Serbian mobster and warlord at the center of the Balkan wars in the 1990s.

He’s a former contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio, where, among other things, he wrote about the Unification Church’s gun business and corruption in Iraq.

His work has also appeared in GQ, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, Salon, Wired, and other publications.

His second book, about a lost city and an American spy who claimed he found it, will be published by Harper Studio.

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.