Burns moves back to sports business beat at Morning Consult

Mark Burns

Morning Consult reporter Mark Burns has returned to the sports business beat.

He had been its senior brands reporter.

Before Morning Consult in March, he had been on the Sports Business Journal as a staff writer covering NHL hockey for the past two years.

Burns was a senior sports business reporter for the Morning Consult beforehand. He also founded the Sports Business Chronicle, where he acted as editor-in-chief. Additionally, Burns has written for Forbes, SportTechie, USA Hockey and others.

He graduated with a law degree from Belmont University and the University of Michigan with a B.A. in history.

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.