Morningstar hires Norton of Barron’s as editorial director of sustainability

Leslie Norton

Morningstar has hired Barron’s senior writer Leslie Norton as its editorial director of sustainability.

She will start Sept. 7.

“Working at Barron’s was one of the greatest experiences of my life,” she wrote on LinkedIn. “Thank you to my magnificent former colleagues, and to all of you who provided the best information to Barron’s readers.”

Norton has been at Barron’s since 1993, initially writing the flagship weekly column about mutual funds. She has also been Asia editor and a foreign stocks reporter.

In her most recent role, she oversees the Q&A, or the department of long-form interviews at Barron’s. Subjects have included Nobel laureates Robert Shiller and Joseph Stiglitz, value investor Jeremy Grantham, and the late, great Jack Bogle, father of index investing.

Norton holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a master’s degree from Columbia 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.