Corporate travel editor Parsons departs Skift

Matt Parsons

Matt Parsons, the corporate travel editor at travel industry site Skift, has departed.

Parsons has become head of content and communications for AltoVita. He was at Skift since March 2020.

He previously was an editor at Buying Business Travel and technology editor at TTG Media. Parsons also worked at Commercial Aviation Media and Informa.

He is a graduate of the University of Wolverhampton.

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.