SourceMedia hires chief content officer

David Evans

SourceMedia, the parent company of American Banker and The Bond Buyer, has hired David Evans as its chief content officer.

Evans was most recently leading the global event content strategy for Forrester.

Evans has more than 20 years of experience in strategic content leadership across live experiences and online platforms for media, professional services, and research organizations.

He began his career as a business journalist and editor, including roles at Canadian Business, Adweek, Business Week, and Fast Company, and was a Knight Bagehot fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

“I am very excited to join this impressive leadership team as well as a seasoned staff of award-winning journalists and event producers,” said Evans in a statement. “SourceMedia has produced some of the most esteemed content in the financial services industry and I am honored to be a part of its next chapter.”

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.