Fortune promotes Lake to associate editor

Sydney Lake

Fortune magazine has promoted Sydney Lake to associate editor.

Lake has been a reporter at Fortune, where she covers housing, real estate, and general business news. She previously wrote about higher education and worked on the publication’s business school rankings.

Before joining Fortune, Lake served as the assistant editor of Virginia Business magazine and interned on the production desk at CQ Roll Call.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and leadership studies from the University of Richmond, where she served as managing editor of the student newspaper, The Collegian.

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.