Protocol editorial director Pierce is departing

David Pierce

David Pierce, the editorial director of tech news site Protocol, is leaving.

“It’s been an incredible, insane, wild last couple of years, and I absolutely could not be more proud of the thing we’ve built – and of all the cool stuff the team’s going to build going forward,” he wrote on Twitter.

Prior to joining Protocol, he was a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, a senior writer with Wired, and deputy editor at The Verge.

Pierce also worked at PC Magazine and is a graduate of the University of Virginia.

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.