Information Week promotes Ruth to senior editor

João-Pierre S. Ruth

João-Pierre S. Ruth, has been promoted to senior editor at Information Week.

He joined in 2019 and was the former New York editor for tech news site Xconomy. He had been with Xconomy since June 2011 and the editor of its New York site from March 2013 to October 2016.

Before Xconomy, Ruth worked for more than 13 years at NJBiz, covering stories on media, technology, telecommunications, marketing and retail throughout New Jersey. While there, he won a Society of Professional Journalists New Jersey chapter first place award for business reporting in 2001.

Ruth is a Rutgers University graduate.

Information Week stopped printing in 2013 but continues publishing on its website.

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.