Inc. magazine hires Verger as senior editor for tech

Rob Verger

Inc. magazine has hired Rob Verger to be its senior editor overseeing technology coverage.

“I’m so excited to have the opportunity to join this amazing team,” he wrote on Twitter.

Verger has been freelancing for the past nine months. Before that, he spent more than six years at Popular Science, including time as its technology editor.

He also worked at Newsweek magazine.

Verger holds a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College and two master’s degrees from Columbia 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.