Categories: OLD Media Moves

Inc. hires executive editor, editor at large

Inc. magazine, which named James Ledbetter as its editor earlier this year, has hired Jon Fine in the newly created position of executive editor and David Whitford as an editor at large.

Nicole Levy of Capital New York writes, “Fine has previously worked as a media columnist for BusinessWeek, an on-air contributor for CNBC and a print media reporter for Advertising Age. He’ll start at Inc. on May 5, as Ledbetter announced this afternoon in a staff memo obtained by Capital.

“Whitford has already returned to Inc., where he was a senior writer for the magazine in the mid-’90s, from Fortune, where he was an editor at large covering energy, politics and business.

“Ledbetter, who left Reuters in January to edit the monthly, is currently recruiting new columnists for both the magazine and its website.”

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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.