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New York Times hires Shah from Quartz

Hasit Shah

New York Times associate managing editor Karron Skog sent out the following on Wednesday:

Please join us in welcoming Hasit Shah to the London Home Team! We’re so delighted to have him on board as a senior staff editor.

Hasit joins us from Quartz, where he spent two years as news editor. He began his career at BBC News, where he spent more than a decade covering national and international news from London, his hometown, and on location as a reporter and field producer in South Asia, Europe and Africa.

He was subsequently a Nieman-Berkman Fellow at Harvard University in 2014, and remained until 2019 in a research capacity.

In his spare time, Hasit is a taekwondo coach, an occasional footballer, and a fan of Liverpool FC. He is also slowly writing a book about Prince.

Hasit started his new role on Monday, May 16. Welcome, Hasit!

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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