Forbes Advisor hires Hall as assistant assigning editor

Alena Hall

Forbes Advisor has hired Alena Hall as an assistant assigning editor.

She will focus on health and wellness stories.

Hall has been a freelance health writer for VeryWell since May 2020. She also was deputy editor of Swirled and a newsletter writer for Inside.com. She also worked as an associate editor at The Huffington Post and as assistant managing editor and managing editor of Odyssey.

Hall holds a bachelor’s degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and a master’s degree from New York University.

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.