WSJ hires Ives to be editor of CMO Today

Nat Ives

Advertising Age executive editor Nat Ives has been hired by The Wall Street Journal to be the editor of CMO Today, its marketing and media newsletter.

Ives had been executive editor since July 2015.

He joined Ad Age in 2005 as a publishing reporter after covering the media and ad industries at The New York Times. Aside from captaining media coverage and properties including Media Mavens and MediaBuzz, Ives shepherded the Agency A-List since 2014.

He also spent two years working for Institutional Investor newsletters.

Ives holds degrees from Cornell University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.