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SportsBusiness hires Rest as global news reporter

Jonathan Rest

SportsBusiness has hires Jonathan Rest to be global sports reporter.

Rest joins after two years as head of content at TransferRoom. Before that, he spent 11 years at Sportcal writing about all facets of the sports business sector.

Rest will work alongside global news editor Martin Ross. Rest, who became head of news at Sportcal in 2019, joins an editorial operation now led by editor in chief Callum McCarthy.

“SportBusiness has the best editorial team in the industry by far, and I’m delighted to be a part of it,” Rest said in a statement. “There’s nothing like the buzz of daily news and I’m looking forward to getting stuck into the biggest stories that are shaping the business of global sport.”

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.

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