Variety ME McKenzie joins The Ankler as managing editor

Lesley McKenzie recently joined The Ankler as managing editor, following three years as the managing editor at Variety where she oversaw more than 70 print publications annually.

Prior to that, she served as the deputy editor of C California Style, and the group editor-in-chief for Modern Luxury’s Los Angeles publications.

Her byline has appeared in publications including the Los Angeles Times and WWD, and as a contributing editor, she also helped launch The Hollywood Reporter’s style section.

She have a B.S. in international relations from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, and an M.A. in journalism from NYU.

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.