Protocol hires Kahn to start climate desk

Brian Kahn

Tech news site Protocol has hired Brian Kahn to start a climate news desk.

He will start on Monday and will be hiring reporters to cover the intersection between climate and tech.

Kahn has been managing editor of Earther, a Gizmodo site, since September 2019. He previously was a senior reporter.

“Starting this site as a writer and growing with it as an editor have been four of the most fulfilling years of my life,” he wrote on Twitter.

Kahn previously worked at Climate Central and The Wall Street Journal. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College and a master’s degree from Columbia 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.