Forbes hires Lucas as assistant editor for leadership and communities

Emmy Lucas

Forbes has hired Emmy Lucas as an assistant editor for its leadership and communities team.

She started on Monday.

Lucas will be working across various leadership and career sections as well as on lists such as Forbes 30 Under 30.

She graduated with a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia in December and interned at FierceMarkets, the parent of Fierce Pharma and Fierce Biotech.

Lucas also worked for the Missouri Business Alert.

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.