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Pensions & Investments names Ablan its editor in chief

Jennifer Ablan

Jennifer Ablan has been named editor in chief and chief content officer of Pensions & Investments, a Crain Communications publication.

She had been U.S. assistant managing editor for the Financial Times.

“Jennifer’s experience and digital journalism skills will be a great asset to our brand and company and will accelerate our pace of growth by launching new products,” said Chris Battaglia, the publisher, in a statement.

Ablan had been a long-time editor of U.S. investments at Reuters before joining the FT as its U.S. markets editor in 2019.

Previously, she spent more than five years at Barron’s magazine as a staff writer/columnist, and two years at Dow Jones Newswires as a reporter.

Ablan received the 2011 Rising Star award from the Women’s Bond Club, and has been named one of Business Insider’s “125 most important finance people you have to follow” on Twitter.

Ablan received a B.A. in journalism and political science from the University of Hawaii.

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.

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