MLex hires Rubenfeld to cover anti-corruption and bribery

Sam Rubenfeld

Financial news service MLex has hired Samuel Rubenfeld to cover anti-corruption and bribery.

He will start in March.

Rubenfeld has been an editor of the Kharon Brief, which reports on global security, since 2019.

Rubenfeld worked for almost 10 years at The Journal, spending the majority of his time there reporting on issues of illicit finance with a special focus on sanctions, money laundering, foreign bribery, terrorism finance and whistleblowers.

He wrote for WSJ’s Risk & Compliance Journal and previously for the Corruption Currents blog.

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.