Skinner departing Investment News for Hightower Advisors

Liz Skinner

Liz Skinner, special projects editor for Investment News, is leaving the news organization and joining Hightower Advisors.

Her first day will be Nov. 8.

Skinner is also editor of editor of ESG Clarity US. She has been a financial reporter and editor at Investment News for 11 years.

She joined Investment News after five years as a reporter for Bloomberg News, where she covered the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other business news out of the nation’s capital.

She has an MA in Environmental Resource Policy from George Washington 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.