Dealbreaker’s Bess Levin joining Vanity Fair

Bess Levin

Bess Levin, the editor of Wall Street gossip site Dealbreaker.com, is leaving the site after 10 years to write for Vanity Fair’s business news site The Hive.

Her last day at Dealbreaker will be Nov. 1. She will start at Vanity Fair on Nov. 9.

Levin writes, “This is the best job I’ve ever had, which probably explains why I’ve spent a third of my life here. When a large part of your professional responsibilities are to write fan fiction about Steve Cohen and Guy Fieri – and then have an actor bring those tales to life in the basement of dimly-lit TriBeCa bar— you don’t have much to complain about.

“There aren’t too many other jobs that could make me think about leaving DB,* but the opportunity to keep writing about Wall Street in my own semi-disturbed way at Vanity Fair’s The Hive turned out to be one of them. I’ll be starting over there on November 9 and hope you’ll come visit.”

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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.