Morning Consult hires Epstein as a senior editor

Adam Epstein

Morning Consult has hired Adam Epstein as a senior editor in charge of its Brands, Sports and Entertainment verticals, based in New York.

Adam was most recently the entertainment reporter at Quartz, where he won a SABEW Best in Business award for his field guide, “How to Save TV Ads from Extinction.” He worked at Quartz for seven years.

Before coming to Quartz, Epstein was a freelance writer and worked briefly in publishing. He’s also a member of the Television Critics Association.

Epstein graduated from Johns Hopkins University and received a master’s degree from the Columbia Journalism School.

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.