Axios hires Morrone as tech editor

Megan Morrone

Axios has hired Megan Morrone as its tech editor.

She will start next week. Morrone had been working at Morning Brew on a contract basis.

She previously was editor of Protocol Workplace. Morrone also was at Medium, where she was responsible for all content on Debugger, Medium’s owned and operated gadget and consumer technology publication that launched in 2020.

She previously was a podcast producer and host, and she also worked at Microsoft. Morrone holds a bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University.

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.