Meyers, director of digital growth at Inc. and Fast Company, has died

Stephanie Meyers

Stephanie Meyers, group director of digital growth at Inc. and Fast Company magazines, died earlier this week.

She was 37.

“She was just a pillar of light in the organization who really touched everyone in a positive way,” said Richard Russey, senior vice president and publisher at Inc. magazine. “It will take some time for us to come to grips with it all.”

She had been in that position since June 2018, overseeing social media teams and strategy and acting as product manager for audience development, video, and podcast products.

Meyers was previously a social media editor and director of strategy and social media for Inc.

She also was an editor at Mental Floss 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.