Bursztynsky among Fast Company layoffs

Jessica Bursztynsky

Fast Company tech reporter Jessica Bursztynsky is among the layoffs at the company on Tuesday.

She covered the gig economy with an additional focus on consumer internet companies.

Bursztynsky previously spent three-and-a-half years at CNBC. She joined as a breaking news desk intern and then served as associate reporter.

She held reporter and editorial roles at The Daily Illini, University of Illinois’ student paper. She interned at The News-Gazette and worked freelance.

Bursztynsky graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor’s degree in news-editorial journalism.

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.