Associate editor Ponciano departs Forbes for B school

Jonathan Ponciano, an associate editor at Forbes, has left the magazine to attend Columbia University’s business school for his MBA.

He joined Forbes in 2018 as an assistant editor for investing.

Ponciano previously wrote for Investopedia. Ponciano studied business journalism and economics at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he wrote news and blog posts for the Kenan-Flagler Business School as a marketing and communications assistant, covering everything from faculty research to industry conferences.

He also spent time reporting on the private sector for Los Angeles Business Journal and working for NC Business News Wire, writing breaking news about North Carolina public companies.

Some of the topics he’s covered include global market trends in commercial real estate, socially responsible investing and the rapid growth of foreign investment in the United States.

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.