Fast Company deputy editor Lidsky departing for The Ankler

David Lidsky

Fast Company deputy editor David Lidsky is leaving to become executive editor of The Ankler.

At Fast Company, he is responsible for helping steer its overall editorial direction, with an emphasis on finding, commissioning and editing long-form narrative stories. He also co-lead’s Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies coverage.

Lidsky has been at Fast Company since March 2004. He previously was at FSB: Fortune Small Business as assistant managing editor.

He also worked at PC Magazine as senior associate editor. Lidsky holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Columbia 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.