Morning Brew hires Smiley as editor of Marketing Brew

Minda Smiley

Morning Brew has hired Minda Smiley as editor of its Marketing Brew newsletter.

Smiley has been deputy Agencies editor at Adweek. She covered the agency landscape, writing about the work itself as well as how agencies are adapting to ever-changing client needs.

She previously covered topics like the Cambridge Analytica scandal, diversity and inclusion in the ad industry and the Super Bowl for The Drum.

Smiley grew up in Pittsburgh and attended Penn State University before moving to New York to receive her M.A. in journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

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.