Investopedia hires Wisnefski as executive editor

Stephen Wisnefski

Personal finance news site Investopedia has hired Stephen Wisnefski to be its executive editor.

Wisnefski previously spent 25 years at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal.

His last job there was assistant managing editor for talent at The Journal. He was also head of professional news and head of real-time news at The Journal.

At Dow Jones Newswires, he was senior editor for the Americas, Chicago bureau chief and deputy managing editor, among other positions.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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.