American Banker hires Vigna as managing editor

Paul Vigna

American Banker has hired longtime business journalist Paul Vigna to be its managing editor.

He has been with Harding Loevner LP for the last two-and-a-half years as a senior investment writer and editor.

Before that, Vigna spent more than 25 years at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal. He had been covering bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, and had been covering the equities market for both the Journal and Dow Jones Newswires since 1997.

He has written four books, including “The Age of Cryptocurrency” and “The Truth Machine,” both with Michael J. Casey, and “Guts.” His latest book, published last year, is “The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin.”

He has been featured in the documentaries “Banking on Bitcoin” and “Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It.”

Vigna previously worked at the Verona-Cedar Grove Times in New Jersey and is a graduate of Fairfield University.

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.