Former head of CNET News Roger Cheng has been named editor in chief of CordCutters News, which covers streaming.
Cheng had left CNET in March. CordCutters was previously owned by Red Ventures, which owns CNET
Cheng managed everything from daily breaking news to in-depth investigative packages. Prior to this, he was on the telecommunications beat and wrote for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal for nearly a decade and got his start writing and laying out pages at a local paper in Southern California.
He won a SABEW Best in Business award in 2011 for breaking news coverage.