Modern Retail promotes Hensel to executive editor

Anna Hensel has been promoted to executive editor at Modern Retail.

That means she will be co-hosting its podcasts and regularly doing calls with more Amazon sellers and DTC execs as she works to refine its coverage. Hensel will also be helping launch new products for Modern Retail subscribers.

She has been managing editor and a reporter for the publication. Before Modern Retail, she worked at VentureBeat as a reporter.

Before VentureBeat, Hensel worked at Inc., where she served as an assistant editor covering startups, managing and editing a stable of about 30 contributors and reporting stories about emerging tech ecosystems across the U.S.

Prior to Inc., Hensel wrote for Silicon Prairie News, worked at Omaha World-Herald, and assisted on a major investigative reporting project for ESPN.

She is a graduate of Creighton 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.