PYMNTS Intelligence hires Browning as ME

PYMNTS Intelligence has hired Lynnley Browning as its managing editor.

PYMNTS provides data, news and insights on innovation in payments and the platforms powering the connected economy.

Browning previously was senior editor at ImpactAlpha, which covers impact investing.

Before that, Browning was at The Messenger its wealth and power team before the publication closed earlier this year. She had been the Financial Planning wealth editor covering taxes, asset management and investment strategies for the publication.

Browning has reported for Rate.com, Bloomberg, Reuters, Newsweek, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe.

She started her career as a foreign correspondent in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Browning holds a BA in Slavic languages and literatures from Princeton University and an MA in comparative literature from The University of Texas at Austin.

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.