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Kumar, mobile section editor at Digital Trends, is departing

Ajay Kumar

Ajay Kumar, the mobile section editor at Digital Trends, is leaving for a new opportunity.

His last day is Friday.

He oversees Digital Trend’s coverage of phones, tablets, wearables, and other mobile devices. He has nearly a decade of experience in tech journalism, consumer electronics, and digital publishing.

In his previous role as a tech editor at Dotdash/Lifewire, he was responsible for product reviews, roundups, deals, and other commerce content.

As a former mobile analyst at PCMag and tech reporter at Newsweek, he’s also personally reviewed hundreds of phones, tablets, hotspots, wearables, batteries, and more, built new testing procedures, and spearheaded coverage of major events like Mobile World Congress, CES, and IFA Berlin.

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.

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