Bracken hired as ME for CyberScoop and FedScoop

CyberScoop and FedScoop has hired Matt Bracken to be its managing editor.

He had most recently been at Morning Consult as a senior editor.

Bracken had been deputy editorial director at Edelman in the Washington, D.C. office. He provided editorial counsel to clients in the federal government, technology, health care, education, public affairs and energy sectors.

Before that, Bracken spent 10 years at the Baltimore Sun as director of audience engagement and development and deputy sports editor. He also worked at the Arizona Daily Star.

He holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Northwestern 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.