Benzinga hires Granatstein as editorial director of events

Lisa Granatstein

Former Adweek editor in chief Lisa Granatstein has been hired by Benzinga as editorial director of events.

She previously was chief content officer of sports business news site Front Office Sports.

She left Adweek last year. She had overseen editorial and events, while also acting as a brand steward. She was previously editor and senior vice president of programming and has been with Adweek over two stints, most recently for the last 11 years.

Granatstein also created its “Most Powerful Women in Sports” livestream. She previously spent nearly 11 years at Mediaweek as a reporter, senior editor, managing editor and editor.

Granatstein also worked at Time magazine.

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.