CNET VP of content Profis departs after 16 years

Sharon Profis

Sharon Profis, the vice president of content at tech news site CNET, is leaving after 16 years.

“I’ll be taking my learnings and experiences to a role that supports creators of content and the future of media,” she wrote on LinkedIn. “Saying goodbye to CNET wasn’t easy, but I’m excited for what comes next.”

Profis previously was a senior editor and an executive editor at CNET.

She is a graduate of San Francisco State 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.