Axios promotes biz editor Marino to executive editor

Kate Marino

Axios business editor Kate Marino has been promoted to executive editor of the national newsroom.

She replaces Aja Whitaker-Moore who was named editor-in-chief of Axios last week.

“She is a smart, tested leader who will be immensely helpful in continuing to make Axios the top source of news and expertise for our readers,” said Whitaker-Moore. “We’re excited to have Kate joining our editorial leadership team.”

Before joining Axios in 2021, Marino worked at Debtwire, where she held several leadership and reporting roles including managing editor. A New York City resident, Marino graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2002.

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.