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Fortune hires Smith as an editor

Dave Smith

Fortune magazine has hired Dave Smith to be an editor on the news, real estate and success teams.

He previously was at The Messenger as deputy editor for the homepage and story production.

Before The Messenger, Smith was a deputy editor on Business Insider’s owned & operated audience team, which included homepage, notifications, and newsletters.

Smith had been with Insider for more than eight years, previously serving as senior editor, deputy editor, senior correspondent, front page editor and host/producer. He held editorial roles at ReadWrite and International Business Times.

Smith has a B.A. from the University of Maryland.

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.

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