Morning Consult hires Burns as sports business reporter

Mark J. Burns

Mark J. Burns has been hired by Morning Consult to cover sports business and write a daily email newsletter on the topic.

He will start on Jan. 7.

Burns is the founder and editor in chief of Sports Business Chronicle, a media company covering the intersection of sports and business centered around a community and membership-based model. He launched it in October 2017 and shut it down a year later.

He has also been a contributor to Forbes and a senior writer at SportsTechie.

Burns has a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Michigan and a law degree from Belmont University.

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.