Forbes hires McGregor as a senior editor

Jena McGregor

Forbes has hired business journalist Jena McGregor to be a senior editor.

McGregor, who has spent the last 11 years at The Washington Post, will start Oct. 1 and will be spearheading the Work and Leadership channel, leading coverage of the workplace, careers and leadership issues.

“There’s never been a more dynamic time to be guiding coverage of how work gets done and the people who manage it,” she wrote on Twitter.

Before the Post, McGregor was an associate editor at BusinessWeek where she covered leadership and management trends and ideas, corporate strategy and executive compensation. She was also a department editor at BusinessWeek and an associate editor at Fast Company.

McGregor also spent more than four years at personal finance magazine SmartMoney.

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.