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Sportico hires Badenhausen as a reporter

Kurt Badenhausen

Sports business publication Sportico has hired Kurt Badenhausen as a reporter.

Badenhausen spent the last 23 years at Forbes magazine, most recently as a senior editor. He focused mainly on the business of sports and its annual franchise valuations. He also spent a lot of time digging into what athletes earn on and off the field of play.

He also started the biennial B-School rankings at Forbes; annual features on the Best Places for Business (metros, states and countries); and America’s Best Banks.

Before Forbes, Badenhausen spent three years as a reporter for Financial World magazine.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Colgate 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.

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