Guardian hires Montgomery to be US tech editor

Blake Montgomery

The Guardian has hired Blake Montgomery to be its U.S. tech editor.

He has been at Gizmodo as technology news editor.

Before Gizmodo, he was a breaking news editor/reporter at The Daily Beast. Before that, he served as a Silicon Valley reporter. He has also worked freelance and was a technology reporter and then breaking news reporter at BuzzFeed.

He has also edited and reported for EdSurge in San Francisco.

Montgomery has a B.A. from Stanford 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.