Schaefer, senior editor for investing, leaves Forbes

Steve Schaefer

Steve Schaefer, the senior editor for investing at Forbes, has left the business magazine.

Schaefer, who also played on the magazine’s softball team, had been at Forbes for 10 years. His last day was Friday.

Schaefer is going to work at New York City-based Hewes Communications, which provides media-relations services and communications consulting to some of the world’s leading investment managers.

He had been senior editor for investing since October 2013. Before that, he was markets news editor from September 2009 to September 2013. He was a markets reporter for two years prior to that.

Schaefer joined Forbes from Mergermarket, where he was a reporter for a year.

He’s a Syracuse University graduate from the Newhouse School.

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.