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Frieswick named editor in chief of On Wall Street

Kris Frieswick has been named editor in chief of On Wall Street, a magazine and website that provides news about wealth managers at wirehouse firms and regional broker-dealers.

For the past 11 years, Frieswick has been a freelance business journalist. Her work has appeared in Inc. Magazine, Men’s Health, Redbook, Hemispheres, Departures, WSJ Magazine, the Economist, Boston Magazine, and Boston Globe magazine. She has also been a video script writer who has worked with Harvard Business Publishing and MSN Money to produce and edit original scripted programming.

She was also a senior writer at CFO magazine from 1997 to 2005 and a regular business news contributor to Boston’s WGBH-TV. Most recently, she managed content marketing initiatives for J.P. Morgan.

“We are very excited to have Kris join our team,” said Robert Whitaker, the senior vice president and proup publisher overseeing SourceMedia’s Investment Advisor Group, in a statement. “Her experience as both a financial journalist and digital brand manager are sure to elevate On Wall Street to a new level.”

Source Media’s other publications include American Banker, The Bond Buyer and National Mortgage News.

Read the release here.

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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