Becker joins Sherwood Media as business editor

Nate Becker

Nathan Becker has been hired by Sherwood Media as its business editor.

Sherwood is the news site from Robinhood.

“I’m particularly interested in Robinhood and Sherwood’s mission to bring investing and business knowledge to more people, especially those who traditionally haven’t been served that type of news,” he wrote on LinkedIn.

Becker previously was the finance editor at The Information before leaving in April. Becker joined The Information in September 2022.

He previously was at The Wall Street Journal, where he helped lead the paper’s renowned team covering deals and Wall Street. He also ran the breaking news desk at the Journal and first joined Dow Jones in 2008.

Becker was a Knight-Bagehot fellow and got his MBA from Columbia. He holds an undergraduate degree from Truman State 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.