The 250 most influential business journalists

Maria Bartiromo Richtopia has developed a list of the 250 “most influential” business journalists using an automatic algorithm based on social media influence, Klout scores and a secret recipe.

Richtopia states, “We take into account various metrics from Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, Youtube, LinkedIn and Instagram. The list gets updated each Monday. If you believe you fit the criteria (or you know a journalist who does), you could add people by clicking the ‘join’ button. All entries are considered by our admins, and Richtopia reserves the right to accept or forbid people from the list as it deems fit.”

Here’s a selection of some of the business journalists on the list:

No. 2: Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business Network

No. 8: Joe Weisenthal of Bloomberg News

No. 16: Dan Primack of Axios

No. 18: Josh Barro of Business Insider

No. 30: Alan Murry of Fortune

No. 44: Sapna Maheshwari of the New York Times

No. 198: Joseph Pisani of the Associated Press

No. 239: Bill Roy, editor of the Wichita Business Journal

See the complete list here.

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.