Sartipzadeh hired as managing editor at Industry Dive

Saied Ali Sartipzadeh

Saied Ali Sartipzadeh has been hired as managing editor of Payments Dive, a new publication from Industry Dive.

He will take over as managing editor of the new publication as well as Banking Dive and CFO Dive.

Sartipzadeh previously spent 22 years as managing editor at Bloomberg BNA and Bloomberg Industry Group, where he led coverage of financial reporting, securities, and antitrust.

He previously worked as an analyst at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Sartipzadeh holds a law degree from American University and an MBA from Georgetown 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.