Front Office Sports hires Roberts as editor in chief

Daniel Roberts

Sports business website Front Office Sports has hired Daniel Roberts to be its editor in chief.

He previously served as editor-in-chief at Variant, an early-stage venture fund known for its writing.

Prior to Variant, Roberts was editor-in-chief of crypto news site Decrypt. Before that, he spent years covering sports business at Yahoo Finance and Fortune. His writing has also appeared at Sports Illustrated, Washington Post, Time, Vice, The Paris Review, Air Mail and more.

He will report to Front Office Sports founder and CEO Adam White.

Front Office Sports has grown its audience by 50% and revenue by 85% year over year.

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.