Quartz audience editor Stier joins MSNBC

Molly Stier

Quartz audience editor Molly Stier has left the financial news site and has joined MSNBC as a digital platforms editor.

At Quartz, she oversaw audience growth and engagement for the site’s paid membership program. Previously, she was the social media editor at The Daily Dot and a fact-checker at The Nation. She is from Texas, where she attended the University of Texas at Austin and ran a publication she created herself.

She has also worked in media production for Austin’s PBS affiliate station, provided research and bill text translations for non-profits focused on civic engagement, and dabbled in campaign work during Wendy Davis’ run for Texas governor in 2014.

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.