CNET ME DiPane departing for new opportunity

Jared DIPane

Jared DiPane, managing editor of commerce at tech news site CNET, is leaving for a new opportunity.

DiPane is becoming director of commerce for Valnet. He had been at CNET since November 2021.

He previously was supervising editor of commerce at Digital Trends and director of commerce content at Future.

DiPane was also a senior editor at Mobile Nations.

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.