Inc. hires Blum as senior writer

Sam Blum

Inc. magazine has hired Sam Blum as a senior writer covering entrepreneurs.

He will start later this month.

Blum has been at Morning Brew as a reporter covering workplace issues. He previously was at Lifehacker.

Blum has also contributed to various publications, including The Guardian, Vox, The BBC, Rolling Stone, GQ and Medium. He was also a social media manager at Red Bull Media House and has served as an associate news and social media editor at Hearst Magazines.

He has also written for Thrillist and Inverse.com and edited for Fuse Media Inc. and Northside Media.

Blum graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz.

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.