Investor’s Business Daily hires Krantz

Investor’s Business Daily has hired Matt Krantz to become its personal finance and management editor.

He previously worked at the newspaper from 1994 to 1999.

Krantz is currently a senior financial writer for American Funds, a Capital Group company, specializing on topics for high net worth investors and registered investment advisors.

Prior to joining Capital Group, Krantz was a reporter and writer for USA Today for 18 years, concentrating on market developments affecting individual investors and their portfolios.

He also wrote USAToday.com’s daily online investing column “Ask Matt” for several years. He is the author of two bestselling investment books, Investing Online for Dummies and Fundamental Analysis For Dummies.

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.