Barron’s has hired Megan Leonhardt from Fortune magazine to be a senior economics writer.

At Fortune, she has been covering the intersection of policy and finance for the past two years. Leonhardt has also been a senior money reporter at CNBC. She was also a writer at Money.

She was also an associate editor, and then served as senior editor for WealthManagement.com at Penton. She has also worked as a news assistant and reporter at Law360.

She was also an associate editor at Southeast Ohio Magazine.

Leonhardt is a graduate of Ohio University.