Stacker hires Etkin as head of content strategy

Stacker, a news wire that offers data-driven business news content, has hired Jaimie Etkin as head of its content strategy.

Etkin will start on Oct. 18. She has been at Galvanized Media where she served as editor in chief for nearly three years.

Prior to Galvanized Media she worked BuzzFeed, HuffPost and The Daily Beast. She was entertainment editor at BuzzFeed and TV editor at HuffPost.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University.

Stacker provides coverage of topics such as food stamp usage, or a breakdown of cost of living in each state. Stacker says it produces quality journalism by shining a light on stories often hidden in local and national data.

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.