Rest of World hires Brandom as US tech editor

Russell Brandom

Rest of World has hired Russell Brandom as its U.S. technology editor.

At Rest of World, Brandom will lead coverage of how big, U.S.-based tech firms such as Apple, Amazon, and Meta operate outside the West. He will also launch a newsletter.

Brandom previously was policy editor of tech news site The Verge. He had been in that role since September 2018 and previously was a senior reporter.

Brandom also worked as a staff writer at UrbanDaddy.

He is a Yale University graduate.

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.