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Gizmodo promotes Pastore to executive editor

Rose Pastore

Tech news site Gizmodo has promoted Rose Pastore to executive editor.

Pastore joined Gizmodo in 2017 as science editor and has led the site’s coverage of health, physics, space, climate, archaeology, and more.

Previously, she was news editor at Fast Company, where she helped shape the magazine’s expansion into online news and live events. Before that, she was an assistant editor at Popular Science, where she covered spaceflight, robotics, and the history of science and tech.

Pastore will report to Rory Carroll, group editor of Gizmodo and Jalopnik.

“Rose is a thoughtful, serious and talented editor with an exceptional news sense,” said Carroll in a statement. “More importantly, she’s a natural leader who has earned the respect of the entire team, she’s absolutely critical to the success of Gizmodo.”

Pastore holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Northwestern 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.

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