Konrad, ex-Forbes senior editor, starts Upstarts Media

Alex Konrad, a former senior editor at Forbes who left in January, has started Upstarts Media to cover the startup ecosystem.

“Upstarts is founded on the belief that startups are at their best when they challenge the status quo to achieve lasting impact,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “This mission is deeply personal to me – enough that I’m staking my career on it.”

UpStarts will publish a newsletter twice a week.

He had been covering venture capital and startups, especially in cloud and AI, out of New York for Forbes.

Konrad also edited the Midas List and Under 30 for VC, and created the Midas List Europe and Cloud 100 lists. He’s written more than a dozen cover stories on business leaders including Marc Benioff, Patrick Collison and Melanie Perkins.

Previously, he worked at Fortune and WNYC, and studied medieval history and archaeology at Harvard 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.