Fortune hires Protocol’s Burton as a reporter

Amber Burton

Fortune magazine has hired Amber Burton as a reporter.

She will be launching and writing a new newsletter called Chief Human Resources Officer Daily.

She previously covered work-related tech issues for Protocol. She has been at Protocol since June 2021.

Previously, she covered personal finance and diversity in business at The Wall Street Journal.

She earned an M.S. in strategic communications from Columbia University and B.A. in English and journalism from Wake Forest 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.