Front Office Sports hires Scherzer as editorial director of news

Lisa Scherzer

Front Office Sports has hired Lisa Scherzer as editorial director of news.

She has been freelancing for the past year for publications such as Barron’s and Industry Dive, as well as JPMorgan Asset Management and content marketing agencies.

Scherzer previously was contents and investments editor at Citi but also spent more than a decade as an editor at Yahoo Finance and a senior staff editor at Smart Money.

Scherzer holds a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College 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.