The Atlantic biz editor Rosen launches new section

Rebecca Rosen

Rebecca Rosen, the editor of The Atlantic’s business news section, is now overseeing a new section called Family.

Family is a reporting initiative on the cultural, political, and economic forces shaping America’s families.

Before taking over the business section in 2014, Rosen served as a senior associate editor for the technology channel, a position she held since July 2011

She was previously an associate editor at The Wilson Quarterly, where she spearheaded the magazine’s In Essence section and worked from February 2007 to July 2011.

Rosen holds a degree in politics from Oberlin College.

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.