Fortune hires Ventresca as senior audience editor

Rachel Ventresca

Fortune magazine has hired Rachel Ventresca as a senior audience editor.

Ventresca was previously manager of social media at Cheddar News and a social media producer and editor.

She interned at NBC News, CNN Politics and Cumulus Media.

Ventresca holds a bachelor’s degree from George Washington 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.