Protocol hires Gizmodo’s McGarry as a news editor

Caitlin McGarry

Tech news site Protocol has hired Caitlin McGarry to be a news editor and help build its news team.

She will start on Feb. 28.

McGarry is senior consumer technology editor at Gizmodo and covering Apple and health and fitness tech. . She has been at that tech news site since January 2020.

She previously was a senior writer for Tom’s Guide and a staff writer for Macworld and an associate editor at TechHive.

McGarry also spent two years at the Las Vegas Review-Journal as a reporter covering downtown revitalization and general assignment business news.

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.