Robinhood’s McMahon among the layoffs

Daniel McMahon, the standards and copy editor at Robinhood Media, was among the layoffs.

McMahon was one of the main editors for the Snacks financial newsletter.

Before Robinhood, he was Business Insider copy chief, where he grew the copy desk from one person editing to eight full-time copy editors editing hundreds of stories.

McMahon has also worked as a copy editor and homepage editor at Time magazine. He was also a contributing writer at VeloNews.com and a senior online editor at Bicycling Magazine. He has also served as senior copy editor at eMarketer Inc.

He has also held editorial roles at Time Inc., and Haymarket Media Group.

McMahon is a graduate of Northern Illinois 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.