Labor and workplace reporter Harrington departs Wired

Caitlin Harrington

Wired labor and workplace reporter Caitlin Harrington was among the 19 staffers laid off by the Conde Nast publication.

She joined two years ago, Harrington had previously served as a research fellow and research editor at the company.

She also worked as a freelance copywriter and copy editor at Viator in San Francisco.

She has also interned at and was an editorial fellow at San Francisco Magazine and was a contributing writer at Hoodline.

Harrington graduated 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.