Fortune hires Umoh as leadership editor

Ruth Umoh

Fortune magazine has hired Ruth Umoh as its leadership editor.

She will start later this month.

Umoh is currently editor-in-chief of The Filament, a news source for diversity, equity and inclusion leaders in technology. She previously spent two years at Forbes as diversity and inclusion editor, where she wrote articles about diversity and inclusion in the workplace, business and society at large.

Umoh also worked at CNBC, Rolling Stone and the New York Daily News. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree from Columbia 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.