Gault, host of CYBER podcast, among those laid off at Vice

Matthew Gault

Matthew Gault, host and producer of the “CYBER” podcast for Vice’s Motherboard, was among those laid off.

“Working with the wonderful people at Motherboard was the honor of my life,” he wrote on Twitter. “Hosting CYBER was a joy.”

Gault joined Vice in September 2015 as a contributing editor.

He also worked at Reuters as a producer and co-host. Gault holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Texas.

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.