Slate hires Krzaczek as senior business editor

Katie Krzaczek

Slate has hired Katie Krzaczek as its senior business editor.

She has been an assistant business editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer. She started at the Inquirer as a digital editor before moving to the business news desk in 2023.

Before, she had been at Insider and Business Insider for two years as a business editor.

Previously, she was an associate editor and producer at Yahoo Finance, where she covered the intersection of pop culture and business, especially in the music industry. Before Yahoo Finance, Katie worked at Billboard, BuzzFeed News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the late Philadelphia City Paper.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Loyola University in Maryland and a master’s degree from Columbia 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.