Zipkin hired by CNBC as editor on Acorns collaboration

Nina Zipkin

Nina Zipkin has been hired by CNBC to be an editor on its Acorns Grow personal finance collaboration.

She started on Monday.

Zipkin previously spent more than five years at Entrepreneur magazine, where she worked as a staff writer. She wrote news and features covering leadership, business and tech, with a focus on underrepresented entrepreneurs, pop culture and innovation and co-hosted the podcast “How Success Happens.”

She also edited the work of Entrepreneur.com contributing writers and was part of the editorial team that launched Entrepreneur.com’s Women Entrepreneur vertical in spring 2018.

Zipkin is a Bryn Mawr graduate.

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.