Grist hires Wired’s Simon as senior staff writer

Matt Simon

Grist has hired Matt Simon as a senior staff writer covering solutions.

Simon previously worked at Wired, where he covered climate change, the environment, and technology for nearly 13 years. He’s the author of three books, most recently “A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies.” He’s reported on a broad range of topics in climate science — from the Arctic to hurricanes to the oceans — and extensively covered technologies like heat pumps, the grid, and electric vehicles.

“I’ve admired Grist’s fearless reporting for many years, so it’s an absolute pleasure and honor to join them,” said Simon. “We’re at an unprecedented inflection point in human history: The solutions we deploy over the next few years will set the groundwork for how the fight against climate change will unfold in the decades to come. There isn’t a publication out there better equipped to tell these stories than Grist.”

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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.