Kim joins Vox to cover billionaires

Whizy Kim

Recode senior editor Samantha Oltman shared this note with the newsroom on Wednesday:

We are thrilled to announce that Whizy Kim will join Vox as our new senior reporter covering billionaire power and influence. Whizy was previously a senior writer at Refinery29, where she covered the work and money beat and wrote about various topics, including student debt, Covid relief policies, the billionaire space race, and professional burnout.
Her previous work and unique perspective have prepared her well to cover the significance of billionaires’ power and how they wield it. She will be reporting to me.

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.