Forbes hires Szkutak to cover venture capital

Forbes has hired reporter Rebecca Szkutak to cover venture capital.

She will start in February.

Szkutak is currently a reporter at PEI’s Venture Capital Reporter, where she has been since August 2019. She previously worked as a reporter for PEI’s Private Debt Investor.

Szkutak freelanced for Colorado Inno in 2018 and interned for Boston Inno. She is a graduate of Emerson College, where she was managing editor of the school newspaper.

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.