Biz journalist Savitz joining GM as editor in chief

Eric Savitz

Longtime business journalist Eric Savitz has been hired by General Motors to be its editor in chief.

He most recently has been a Barron’s technology columnist for the past five years.

He joined Barron’s Group in 2019 from Roku, where he was senior director for corporate communications and previously was a partner at Brunswick Group.

He had three stints at Barron’s. His first two spanned 19 years, including nine years as West Coast Editor, blogger and columnist. He created Barron’s Tech Trader Daily, which was the magazine’s first blog, and its first print technology investing column.

Eric also wrote a tech investing column for Smart Money, was San Francisco bureau chief for Forbes and served as executive editor of The Industry Standard. He started his career at Dow Jones Newswires.

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.