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Fortune hires Gossage as director of news

Bobbie Gossage

Fortune magazine has hired Bobbie Gossage to be its director of news.

She will start June 1.

“I’m honored and thrilled to be joining this incredible team and working with so many talented business journalists whose work I have long admired,” she wrote on Twitter.

She most recently had been the deputy editor at Marker, Medium’s business publication. She has been with Marker since August 2019.

Gossage is an award-winning editor with more than 20 years of experience in journalism, storytelling, and content strategy. She has led content marketing and content strategy for several large brands, including Etsy, LearnVest, and Northwestern Mutual.

As executive editor of Inc. magazine, Gossage directed editorial strategy and assigned and edited some of the magazine’s most memorable cover stories and features.

As an editor and a writer, she’s covered a variety of subjects throughout her career, including business, entrepreneurship, finance, lifestyle, technology, health, and career.

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.

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