Quartz executive editor Landy to take on new duties

Heather Landy

Quartz executive editor Heather Landy will be taking on new duties at the financial news site after a journalist is hired to run Quartz at Work.

Landy will still be executive editor but is going to be focused on some new areas, overseeing editors for economics and finance, tech and emerging industries, and business of culture reporting teams.

She will be working closely with those editors and their teams on developing their most ambitious coverage ideas.

Landy has been at Quartz since 2014 and was previously global news editor and managing editor. She joined Quartz in 2014 from American Banker Magazine, where she was editor in chief. She previously wrote for Bloomberg News, The Washington Post, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Landy has a BSJ and MSJ from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Her reporting in Texas earned her a Gerald Loeb award.

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.