Ledbetter becomes editor of thought leadership at KPMG

James Ledbetter

Longtime business journalist James Ledbetter has become editor of thought leadership at KPMG.

His paid newsletter FIN, focused on decentralized finance and fintech, is being handed off to his collaborator Holly Sraeel.

He was executive editor of The New York Observer before leaving a year ago.

Ledbetter joined the Observer from Clarim Media, where he served as chief content officer. Prior to this, he was the head of content at Sequoia Capital, editor in chief of Inc. magazine, editor of Reuters.com, and held key positions at Slate, Time and Fortune.

In his previous tenure at Observer, he created the storied ‘Off the Record’ column, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The New Republic and dozens of others.

Ledbetter is the author of six books and serves on the board of the non-profit Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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.