Arizent director of editorial operations Perkins is departing

Maddy Perkins, director of editorial operations at Arizent, announced Monday that she is leaving the financial news publisher for a new opportunity.

She has led in the establishment of best practices in editorial operations across all 10-plus Arizent titles, including American Banker, The Bond Buyer, Financial Planning and Accounting Today. She also has acted as editorial project lead on all cross-brand/cross-title editorial projects including but not limited to joint editorial packages, and cross-brand editorial research projects.

Perkins previously was managing editor, assistant managing editor and associate digital editor at Financial Planning.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a master’s degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

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.