Motherboard labor reporter Gurley departs

Lauren Gurley

Lauren Kaori Gurley, a senior staff writer at Motherboard covering labor issues, is leaving the Vice site for a new opportunity.

Motherboard is an online magazine and website focused on technology.

Gurley focused on the “ballooning labor movement” in the tech sector. She previously worked at The New Republic as a reporter.

Prior to her time at The New Republic, she was the web editor at NACLA, the North American Congress on Latin America.

She graduated from New York University in May 2018.

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.