Kiplinger hires Pedersen as reporter/researcher

Brendan Pedersen

Branden Pedersen has been hired by Kiplinger Personal Finance as a writer and a fact checker.

He starts on Sept. 10.

Pedersen spent the summer working as a reporter at BusinessDen.com, which covers business news in Colorado, as a Dow Jones News fund intern. He graduated from DePaul University in Chicago with a degree in journalism and political science.

He worked at Kiplinger last summer as part of the American Society of Magazine Editor’s summer immersion program, when he got to know the staff and got a sense for how they do business.

“It’s a great team that’s done really well under Mark Solheim‘s leadership since he took over last year, and I’m excited to see where we’re headed next,” said Pedersen.

Pedersen has also worked at NBC Chicago and as a research assistant for University of Chicago Booth School of Business professor and Chicago Booth Review editor-in-chief Hal Weitzman.

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.