Rowan named deputy editor of consumer finance at Forbes Advisor

Lisa Rowan

Lisa Rowan has been named deputy editor of consumer finance at Forbes Advisor.

She has been a staff writer covering banking and personal finance.

Her bylines include Retail Dive, Racked (now Vox’s The Goods), The Washington Post and CityLab (The Atlantic). She is also the co-host of “Pop Fashion,” a weekly podcast discussing the business of fashion.

Rowan was previously with Lifehacker, a Gizmodo Media Group website, working as a personal finance reporter. She has also worked as a senior writer and on-air analyst at The Penny Hoarder and as managing editor at The Write Life.

She has also co-written The Penny Hoarder’s first longform series, “The American Nightmare,” exploring the long-term effects of the 2008 financial crisis on homeownership and housing access in the U.S.

Rowan has a master’s degree from Georgetown 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.