Ad Age hires Fischer as an editor

Mark Fischer

Advertising Age has hired Mark Fischer as an editor.

Fischer is currently a digital sports editor and producer at the New York Post, where he has worked since April 2019. He previously was an online sports editor at the New York Daily News for a year.

“It was a privilege to be part of this sports section, but it’s time to try something new,” he wrote on Twitter.

Fischer is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, where he was digital managing editor of the Daily Collegian. While in college, he interned at the Daily News and NJ.com.

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.