Thorne named new editor of PitchBook News

Alec Davis, the editor in chief of Pitchbook News, is stepping down after five years to take on a new role at the organization and is being succeeded by James Thorne.

Thorne is a Seattle-based managing editor overseeing PitchBook’s venture capital coverage and data journalism initiatives. He previously reported for GeekWire, Reuters, CNBC and Source Media.

A native of Colorado, Thorne graduated from Boston College and received his master’s degree in business journalism from New York University.

“In this role, I’ll be writing deeply reported articles on a range of global themes in technology, the energy transition and the expansion of private markets into new channels,” Davis wrote on LinkedIn. “I’m super-excited to be creative as a writer once again.”

Davis has been a financial journalist since the mid-1990s. Alec previously was an editor at The Wall Street Journal and was a founding editor of MarketWatch. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history and journalism from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a master’s degree in international politics from American 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.