The Information hires Brown as senior finance editor

The Information has hired Ken Brown as senior finance editor.

Brown was previously at the Wall Street Journal before leaving last year. He oversaw the Journal’s climate coverage, plus financial risk and investigations. He helped put the Journal back on the map on climate change.

While running the paper’s finance coverage in Asia, he launched the Journal’s award-winning coverage of the fraud at Malaysian investment fund 1MDB. He led deep dives into the Chinese property bubble and surging debt.

Brown also helped lead the Journal’s coverage of the financial crisis, winning multiple awards.

As an editor, Brown ran the paper’s “Heard on the Street” team, and its technology, telecom and real estate coverage. As a reporter, Brown covered financial scandals and collapses including Arthur Andersen, Enron, WorldCom and others.

He was a principal at Pzena Investment Management, a value-oriented investment firm. He has worked at the New York Times, Smart Money magazine and the Washington Post. He attended SUNY Binghamton and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

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.