Senior news editor Dahl among the LinkedIn layoffs

Jordyn Dahl

Jordyn Dahl, a senior news editor at LinkedIn, was among the nearly 700 laid off at the company this week.

She had been at LinkedIn since 2019, starting out as its small business reporter. She also built two beats — sustainability/climate and entrepreneurship — from the ground up. She also launched two newsletters that had an audience of more than 100,000.

“It’s been a wild ride going from a traditional newsroom and the NGO world to tech, but boy have I learned a lot,” she wrote on LinkedIn.

Dahl previously covered technology and startups as a contributor for Forbes based in Beijing.

She also worked as an editor in Beijing at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which is a foreign policy think tank. She interned for the New York Times while in Beijing and freelanced for MIT Tech Review since returning to the U.S.

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.