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Deputy features editor Legro among those laid off at Wired

Michelle Legro

Wired deputy features editor Michelle Legro was among those laid off by the Conde Nast publication last week.

She had been at Wired for nearly two years and came from Medium, where she served as deputy editor, GEN and before that, as a features editor, GEN.

Legro also worked in the story department, Radiolab, at WNYC Radio and was a contributing editor at The Wing, a twice-yearly print magazine in New York. She was also a features editor at First Look Media in New York, and a contributing editor at Columbia Journalism Review.

She has also edited for Longreads in New York and The New Republic.

Legro earned her bachelor’s degree from Barnard College and a master’s degree from Columbia University in New York.

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.

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