Reorg hires Merritt as global head of editorial strategy and operations

Jennifer Merritt

Reorg has hired Jennifer Merritt as global head of editorial strategy and operations.

She has been vice president of content and executive editor at Insider Intelligence since July 2021.

Before that, Merrit was editor in chief for digital at PwC. Merritt previously was the editor of BBC Capital, the business news website from the British television network. She also worked at Reuters, where she had been working on the wealth management coverage team. Before that, she was financial markets editor at the Associated Press.

She also had senior editorial positions overseeing personal finance, wealth and markets coverage at the Florida Times-Union, Money and smartmoney.com and wsj.com. She also has been department editor of management education at Business Week.

Merritt holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.

Reorg covers leveraged finance, distressed companies, restructuring and post-reorganization news.

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.