Former executive editor of The Wrap joins comms firm

Jethro Nededog

Jethro Nededog, former co-executive editor of The Wrap, has been hired by The Lippin Group as vice president on its corporate communications team.

”From the day I met Jethro, he impressed me with his knowledge of the entertainment and media worlds and his exceptional skill set as a writer and strategic thinker,” said Dick Lippin, chairman of Lippin, in a statement.

Based in Los Angeles, Nededog will work on clients spanning television, advertising and technology. He will also lend his expertise to the Company’s consulting practice, TLG Connect.

Nededog also held the roles of managing editor for business news and TV editor at The Wrap. Previously, he was the senior news editor at Entertainment Weekly and entertainment editor at Insider.

As a reporter, Nededog has covered the TV industry for Business Insider, The Hollywood Reporter and the Los Angeles Times.

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.