Rest of World features director Turk is departing

Victoria Turk

Rest of World features director Victoria Turk is leaving after more than two years.

Turk joined the website, which covers how technology impacts the world, in October 2021.

“It’s been an absolute honour to edit such talented journalists globally, but I’m itching to do more of my own writing,” she wrote on Twitter.

She previously served as features editor at Wired UK, commissioning and editing Wired UK’s long-form features across print and digital among other tasks.

She was also a technology editor at New Scientist and has served as UK editor, Motherboard at Vice. She has also worked freelance.

Turk has a B.A. from University of Oxford and a M.S. in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.