TIAA hires Goodman from Barron’s to be editor in chief

Beverly Goodman

Beverly Goodman, editorial director of investing and asset management coverage at Barron’s, has been hired by TIAA to be its editor in chief.

She will start next month.

“Leaving Barron’s was not an easy decision—the team there is truly top-notch, and includes some of my favorite people,” she wrote on LinkedIn. “But I am excited for this new role at a firm dedicated to getting Americans through retirement.”

Goodman has been at Barron’s at Barron’s since September 2011. She previously was managing editor at Fidelity Investments and a senior editor at Smart Money. She was also a ssenior writer at TheStreet.com.

She also worked at Red Herring and Money magazine.

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.