Fast Company hires Hess as a staff editor

Abigail Hess

Abigail Johnson Hess

Fast Company has hired Abigail Johnson Hess to be a staff editor.

She previously was at Robinhood leading multimedia projects.

Hess also worked at CNBC as a reporter, where she primarily covered careers and education.

Before CNBC, Hess worked as a research analyst at Third Bridge Group and interned at Amazon. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in media arts and sciences and political science from Wellesley College.

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.