Fortune hires two new staffers

Clifton Leaf, the editor in chief at Fortune, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday:

Dear Fellow Fortune-ites: I’m happy to announce that we have TWO new wonderful colleagues joining us.
Alison “Ali” Klooster has joined FORTUNE as senior manager of brand communications, and will focus on making sure the rest of the media world gets to know FORTUNE’s extraordinary content across its many platforms—digital, print, conference, video, newsletters, carrier pigeon, and more. A native St. Louisan and graduate of the University of Chicago, she was most recently a senior publicist at Viking and Penguin Books. After six years of badgering the news media, she decided to switch sides and try it from the inside (and she apologizes for any irrelevant pitches she may have sent your way—please don’t search your inboxes!). In her free time, she enjoys playing golf and sampling Italian amaro. I urge all of you to send her newsy stories to pitch out.
McKenna Moore joined us, officially, on Oct. 22 as assistant audience engagement editor, working alongside John Buysse. As most of you know, McKenna is coming off of a web production internship at FORTUNE—an internship that impressed her FORTUNE colleagues so much that we had to hire her! McKenna, who graduated from Syracuse University in May, is originally from Ohio and welcomes any discussion of Ohio sports or the Midwest in general. In her spare time, she likes to practice yoga, go to standup comedy shows, and try new hard ciders in her pursuit of the driest in New York City.
Thanks!
Cliff

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.