The Information hires Brown to be its weekend magazine editor

Abram Brown

The Information has hired Abram Brown to be its weekend magazine editor.

He has been a deputy editor at The Messenger for the past six months.

He previously had been at The Information to work on its weekend magazine, covering wealth, power and technology and how those shape culture and the world.

Brown previously had been at Forbes since January 2012. He has been deputy chief of reporters, associate editor, editorial operations manager, and a senior editor.

Brown is a Syracuse University graduate.

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.