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Semafor promotes Tani to media editor

Maxwell Tani

Semafor has promoted Maxwell Tani to media editor.

He will work more on shaping its media coverage and strategy but still continue to cover media news. He joined Semafor in 2022.

“Max will be playing a big role producing and appearing in our media summit and other public-facing projects you’ll hear more about soon,” said Semafor co-founder Ben Smith in an email to the staff.

Tani previously was at Politico and co-authored its “West Wing Playbook” newsletter.

Tani previously covered politics and media for Business Insider. He previously wrote for the Huffington Post and helped produce the Working podcast for Slate. He has also written about music and film for Washington City Paper.

He is a 2014 graduate of American University in journalism and cinema studies.

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.

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