Mehta named new editor of Fast Company magazine

Stephanie Mehta

Mansueto Ventures CEO Eric Schurenberg sent out the following announcement on Monday:

We have a new editor in chief of Fast Company. Her name is Stephanie Mehta, and if you’ve followed practically any of Fortune’s cover stories in 2013 or 2014 or its Most Powerful Women in Business franchise, or Bloomberg’s worldwide conferences, or (most recently) Vanity Fair’s New Establishment package, then you know her work.
If you have ever had the good fortune to work along side her, as some of us have, then you know her personally, too. And you can confirm that she is an exacting journalist, a generous leader, and a warm colleague. She’s a true practitioner of excellence in business journalism and a fierce believer in Fast Company’s mission and its vast possibilities as a brand. I have a feeling you’re going to like having her around.
Stephanie starts March 5, after she wraps up a few things at Vanity Fair. When she arrives, please join me in giving her a big welcome.
Eric

Mehta replaces Robert Safian, who left at the end of last year.

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.