Philly magazine biz editor promoted to senior editor

Fabiola Cineas

Fabiola Cineas, the business editor of Philadelphia magazine, has been promoted to senior editor.

In the new role, she will oversee the launch of a new vertical that will focus on the Philadelphia region’s booming life sciences scene. The magazine is looking to hire a part-time contributor to cover stories on this beat.

Cineas has been with the magazine since June 2016.

Cineas, a graduate of Dickinson College and the University of Pennsylvania, had previously been a regular contributor to the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, where her work focused on the city’s efforts around early childhood education.

She also covered New York City schools as a freelance reporter for Chalkbeat NY. Before covering schools, she taught seventh-graders at a charter school for three years.

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.