Erb rejoins Forbes

Kelly Phillips Erb

Kelly Phillips Erb has rejoined Forbes, where she worked for nearly a decade from 2011 to 2021.

“I’m excited to return to work with friends and colleagues, writing and sharing stories that matter to tax professionals and taxpayers,” she wrote on LinkedIn. “It’s a thrill to be able to do the things that I love on my terms. I realize what a gift that is.”

Erb has been a columnist/editor/insights and commentary team lead at Bloomberg Tax.

Erb joined Bloomberg to write a weekly column with commentary on the latest in tax news, tax law, and tax policy. She wrote about tax and tax policy, including tax-related security & technology issues for her website Taxgirl. She was a podcaster for the Taxgirl Podcast, which focuses on issues that matter to taxpayers and tax professionals.

She worked at Forbes for more than nine years in various roles, including senior editor and senior contributor and tax writer.

Erb has a B.A. from Meredith College and a JD/LLM from Temple 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.