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Fast Company promotes Zara to news director

August 4, 2025

Posted by Chris Roush

Christopher Zara

Christopher Zara has been promoted to news director for Fast Company.

Zara will work with newsroom leaders to develop news and audience strategies.

He has been a senior staff editor, where he ran the news desk and oversees daily coverage of everything from Big Tech to small startups, company culture, innovation, design, retail, travel, finance, and any topic in the Fast Company universe.

He joined Fast Company in 2016.

Zara previously was a media and tech editor for International Business Times, a theater critic for Newsweek, and managing editor of the performing arts newspaper Show Business Weekly.

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