Institutional Investor hires Bartalos to run RIA Intel

Greg Bartalos

Institutional Investor has hired Greg Bartalos to be editor in chief of RIA Intel, which it plans to launch in June.

Bartalos was most recently at Royal Media as its editorial director. Before that, he was in charge of Barrons.com.

In his Barrons.com role, Bartalos oversaw editorial content for the site, as well as online community-building initiatives and Barrons.com’s relationships with other sites.

Bartalos left Barron’s in September 2017. He became editor of Barrons.com in early 2009, following his role as assistant managing editor of Yahoo Finance, a position he had held since 2006. He previously served as senior editor of Barrons.com.

He joined Yahoo Finance in 2005 after serving as senior editor of Barrons.com for four years. Previously, Bartalos served as managing editor and an editorial consultant for Individual Investor Online from 1998-2001.

He was also a reporter for Bloomberg News and Institutional Investor. Bartalos began his career at Competitive Media Reporting as an audio editor.

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.