World Bank hires Wenger as senior economics editor

The World Bank has hired longtime business journalist Scott Wenger as senior economics editor.

Wenger’s last journalism position was editorial director of Barron’s Advisor.

Prior to Barron’s, Wenger was group editorial director at Arizent. During his time, Arizent’s publication Financial Planning won two SABEW Best in Business Awards: for General Excellence in its category, SABEW’s top prize, and Best Banking/Finance coverage in its category for a multimedia investigative project.

He also worked at the New York Daily News, where he had a 13-year run as managing editor for money and business. There, he launched a small business conference series and a weekly personal finance news magazine.

He also authored an award-winning series on the impact of China’s booming economy on New Yorkers, and was a weekly guest on a New York radio show for nearly a decade.

He has also worked as a business news producer at CNN and CNBC, and as a health care equities analyst at Alex. Brown & Sons.

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.