The Messenger hires Browning to run wealth and power team

Lynnley Browning

News startup The Messenger has hired Lynnley Browning to run its wealth and power team.

She has been the Financial Planning wealth editor covering taxes, asset management and investment strategies for the publication.

A longtime and award-winning business journalist, Browning has reported for Rate.com, Bloomberg, Reuters, Newsweek, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe.

She speaks fluent Russian and started her career as a foreign correspondent in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

She holds a BA in Slavic languages and literatures from Princeton University and an MA in comparative literature from The University of Texas at Austin.

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.