Lowry becomes media editor for The Wrap

Brian Lowry, who recently served as The Wrap’s interim business editor, has been named media editor, focusing on the intersection of media and politics.

He is a veteran media columnist, critic, and reporter who spent eight years at CNN as a columnist and critic, beginning in 2016.

Before that, he was a columnist and chief TV critic at Variety and previously worked as a reporter and columnist covering the television industry for the Los Angeles Times.

Lowry also has been a contributor to National Public Radio and FoxSports.com, and was a co-host of TV Guide Network’s “Square Off,” a weekly talk program about the television business. He also has written two authorized companion guides to the Fox series “The X-Files.”

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.