Quartz hires Brinded as European news editor

Lianna Brinded

Quartz’s editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following announcement on Thursday:

I’m happy to announce that Lianna Brinded is joining Quartz as Europe News Editor starting July 26, based in London, where she will spearhead coverage of European events, and work closely with the team there to grow our European readership.
Lianna was most recently second-in-command at Business Insider UK, where she built the finance and politics teams from scratch, helped increase readership enormously, wrote frequently, and led coverage of events including Davos. She has also been a news editor at IBT UK, a senior reporter and editor for Incisive Media covering energy risk, and a producer at CNBC.
Lianna has a master’s in contemporary war and peace studies from the University of Sussex, and a bachelor’s in English and American literature from the University of Kent. She’s a roller-derby player and coach, and plays multiple musical instruments. You can follow her @LiannaBrinded.

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.