Poets & Quants sold to London company

Poets & Quants, the website covering business education run by business journalist John Byrne, has been sold to Times Higher Education in London for an undisclosed amount.

Byrne will remain as CEO and editor in chief for another three years.

“This is a match made in heaven,” said Byrne in a statement. “We’ll be joining a news and data-gathering organization that deeply understands the higher education market.”

Byrne — former executive editor at BusinessWeek and editor in chief at Fast Company — founded Poets & Quants in 2010, ultimately expanding the franchise to include five content websites as well as a conference business.

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.