Mayerowitz departing The Points Guy after five years

Scott Mayerowitz

The Points Guy executive editorial director Scott Mayerowitz is leaving the travel industry website after nearly five years.

He joined in January 2019 after being deputy business editor at the Associated Press. Mayerowitz said on Twitter that he is “stepping away to do consulting in the travel space and pursue some other new career adventures.”

On LinkedIn, Mayerowitz wrote, “I’m excited to see what the amazing team at TPG comes up with next. I’ll be watching from the window seat of a jet, heading to the next great destination.”

Before joining the Associated Press in 2011 as a reporter covering airlines, Mayerowitz was a business and travel reporter and producer for ABC News, and a statehouse reporter for the Providence Journal in Rhode Island.

As an airlines reporter, Mayerowitz distinguished himself by breaking news on his beat and producing top-notch enterprise stories that appealed to AP’s global audience.

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.