Insider hires Wired’s Rogers to be senior tech correspondent

Adam Rogers

Insider has hired Adam Rogers from Wired magazine to be a senior tech correspondent.

He has been at Wired for 18 years. He is a senior correspondent and previously was deputy editor and articles editor.

Rogers has been covering science and miscellaneous geekery. Before coming to Wired, Rogers was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and a reporter for Newsweek for nine years covering science, tech and medicine.

He is the author of The New York Times science bestseller “Proof: The Science of Booze.” He also wrote a book about the science of color.

Rogers holds a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College and a master’s degree from Boston 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.