Axios hires Marino as its business editor

Kate Marino

Kate Marino has been hired by Axios to be its business editor.

She started on Monday.

Marino has spent the last decade at Debtwire, where she was most recently managing editor of North America corporate coverage, overseeing a team of journalists covering North America leveraged finance, distressed debt and restructuring. She was also a deputy editor, assistant editor of leveraged finance, and assistant editor of leveraged loans at Debtwire.

Before Debtwire, she worked at Dealreporter and Source Media as a reporter.

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.