Variety promotes Keslassy to international executive editor

Elsa Keslassy

Variety has promoted Elsa Keslassy to executive editor of international coverage.

William Earl of Variety writes, “In her new role, Keslassy will lead the magazine’s global team of award-winning correspondents, while helping guide its reporting at the leading international film and television festivals and markets. She will continue to be based out of Paris, where she has spent more than a decade covering the entertainment industry spanning film, TV and streamers across France, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Israel.

“‘Variety has been my home for most of my professional career, and I’m honored to take on this new role to spearhead our international coverage, which has grown tremendously over the last few years,’ Keslassy says. ‘I look forward to working even more closely with the best and most dedicated team of reporters overseas, who cover the TV and film business at a time when all eyes are on the international industry.'”

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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.