WSJ names new banking editor

Colin Barr of Fortune magazine will start Monday as the new banking editor of The Wall Street Journal.

He replaces Jared Sandberg, who left the Journal in late May to become editor of Bloomberg.com.

Barr tells Talking Biz News via e-mail that he will work for the Money & Investing section. Thursday was his last day at Fortune after nearly four years as a senior writer for the magazine.

Barr was named one of the top 25 finance bloggers this year by Time, and won a 2006 SABEW Best in Business award for the weekly Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street column.

Before joining Fortune, he was a writer and companies editor for nine years at TheStreet.com, and before that an editor at Dow Jones News Service.

He’s a 1991 Penn State graduate.

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.