Speller named senior editor of HuffPost Family

HuffPost has named Katherine Speller as its new senior editor of family and relationships.

Speller was previously the editorial director at Parents, and her work has appeared in SheKnows, Women’s Health, The Daily Dot, WNYC, Public Radio International (PRI), MTV News, Bustle, Thought Catalog and Medium.

Speller is a graduate of SUNY — New Paltz.

HuffPost Family is a new vertical exploring the lives of modern-day families in all their glory, beyond traditional views or run-of-the-mill parenting content. HuffPost Relationships digs into the ties that bind (and sometimes break) us, including marriage, friendship, sibling dynamics, dating, sex and so much more.

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.