Fast Company hires McCann as executive digital director

Maia McCann

Fast Company has hired Maia McCann to be its executive digital director.

She previously was at Yahoo for four years as director of programming at In the Know, its Gen Z-facing website, driving $30 million in annual revenue.

McCann also worked at Wild Sky Media as vice president of content and executive creative director, and as editor in chief and director of content at Little Things.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from New York 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.