NY Times hires Wemple to cover media for business section

The New York Times has hired Erik Wemple to cover media news for the business section.

He will start in September and be based in Washington.

Wemple has been at The Washington Post for the past 14 years and is taking the newspaper’s buyout offer.

He previously was the Loose Lips columnist for Washington City Paper. Then came a stint covering Washington for a New York-based, media-obsessed product of the Internet bubble (Inside.com, now defunct). He also spent eight years as editor of City Paper and another year as editor of TBD.com.

Wemple holds a bachelor’s degree from Hamilton College and a master’s degree from Georgetown 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.