Lane named business editor of The Hill

Sylvan Lane has been named business editor at The Hill.

He will lead The Hill’s coverage of finance, economics, business, lobbying and technology with a focus on the connections between politics and policy. He previously had been the assistant business and finance editor.

Lane previously led The Hill’s coverage of the U.S. economy and financial sector, focusing on the recovery from the coronavirus recession, financial regulation and the Federal Reserve. He has been at The Hill since December 2015.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern 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.