Categories: OLD Media Moves

Institutional Investor editor in chief McDaniel, deputy Orr departing for Pageant Media

Kip McDaniel

Institutional Investor chief content officer and editor in chief Kip McDaniel is leaving the publication to become president of the Americas at Pageant Media.

Also departing is deputy editor Leanna Orr, who is becoming director of allocator content at Pageant Media.

They will be leaving in one month.

McDaniel and Orr have been at Institutional Investor since 2016.  They oversaw the launch of a website called RIA Intel that covers registered investment advisers, and they combined Institutional Investor with Alpha, a publication that covered alternative and long-only asset management.

Leanna Orr

In 2018, they also turned Institutional Investor into an online-only publication.

They previously were editor and managing editor, respectively, of Chief Investment Officer magazine from 2009 to 2016.

Pageant’s publications include AltCredit, Fund Directions, Fund Intelligence, Fundmap, Portfolio Management Research and Real Estate Fund Intelligence.

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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