Ledbetter hired as chief content officer for Clarim Media

James Ledbetter

Longtime business journalist James Ledbetter has been hired to be chief content officer of Clarim Media, the parent company of Worth magazine and Techonomy.

Ledbetter said that Clarim will continue the fintech newsletter he started last year.

“The fact that the leadership at Clarim sees an opportunity to grow FIN as a business was a big reason why I took the position,” he said in a message. Ledbetter added that he’s “planning to help Clarim build out its content and extend the reach of its excellent brands.”

Clarim acquired Worth and Techonomy in 2018 for undisclosed amounts and is backed by Jim McCann, founder and chairman of 1-800-Flowers.com. The company will look to acquire additional properties that serve similar audiences with editorial products.

Ledbetter was editor in chief of Inc. magazine until late 2019 and was head of content at Sequoia Capital for a year. He joined Inc. in February 2014. Before that, he was with Reuters as opinions editor.

Ledbetter has previously been deputy managing editor of CNNMoney.com and Fortune.com. He was the founding editor of Slate’s financial site The Big Money and has published six books, most recently “One Nation Under Gold.”

Ledbetter also worked at The Industry Standard, the Village Voice and Time magazine.

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.