American Banker parent hires Sraeel to oversee live content

Holly Sraeel

Arizent, the parent of American Banker and The Bond Buyer, has hired Holly Sraeel as senior vice president of strategy and content, live media.

The position is a new one at the company.

Earlier this year, Sraeel became the editor in chief and publisher of FIN, a top 50 technology newsletter on Substack, relaunched as “FIN: The Fast Forward on Fintech,” with a new design and more dedicated areas of fintech innovation coverage.

Sraeel is a former executive team member of SourceMedia (now Arizent), a then-$300 million business media and information services company where she was one of only two women on the company’s operating committee.

During her SourceMedia tenure, she was group editorial director of banking and technology magazine media brands; founder, president and editorial director of The Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance Community (now part of American Banker but an independent division when she led it); and senior vice president of brand management.

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.