Serrano among those laid off at The Messenger

Jody Serrano

Jody Serrano is among the editorial staff laid off at The Messenger. Serrano had been covering online communities and social media.

Previously, she was an online communities and internet reporter at Gizmodo, where she joined in 2017 as a weekend editor.

Serrano began her career in Texas, where she also worked for the Austin American-Statesman and The Texas Tribune. She was also with Politico in Washington D.C., where she covered social media and FCC, among others. She has also worked for Gizmodo en Español, Gizmodo’s Spanish language vertical, covering international industry news.

Serrano has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree from IE Business School in Madrid.

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.