OLD Media Moves

Smith of Forbes joins Sports Business Journal

Chris Smith

Chris Smith, who has covered the business of sports for Forbes, has been hired by the Sports Business Journal.

He will be covering the business of the Olympics and sports entertainment.

Smith has been at Forbes since November 2011. He directly managed annual Forbes team valuation projects for Major League Soccer, NASCAR, Formula One, college football and basketball. He also assisted with research and reporting for other Forbes team valuation projects, such as NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, international soccer and esports, as well as its annual highest-paid athlete lists.

He also ran the Forbes SportsMoney Index, edited the annual Forbes 30 Under 30 sports list and oversaw Forbes’ sports contributor network, recruiting, managing and editing a team of some 150 freelance writers.

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.

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