CNN senior tech writer Kelly among the layoffs

Samantha Murphy Kelly

Samantha Murphy Kelly, a senior tech writer at CNN, was among the layoffs at the news organization on Wednesday.

She has been with CNN since 2016. She previously was the deputy tech editor at Mashable.

Kelly covered lifestyle tech and entertainment at Mashable, which she joined in 2011. Before joining Mashable, Kelly covered the tech industry as a senior writer for TechNewsDaily and wrote stories for sister publications LiveScience.com and Laptop Magazine.

She also spent five years at a retail trade magazine writing about social media and technology, worked at ABC News in the Brian Ross investigative unit and got her start in journalism at CourtTV.com, where she reported on high-profile court cases.

She’s a graduate of New York University with a degree in 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.