Shapiro, podcast reporter for Verge, is departing

Ariel Shapiro

Ariel Shapiro, who has been covering the podcast industry for The Verge for the past two years, is departing.

She has been a lead reporter for “Hot Pod,” which covers the podcasting industry. She wrote “Hot Pod”’s paid and free newsletters.

Previously, she was an investigations researcher at Tooning Out the News, ViacomCBS. Before that, she has reported and edited for Forbes, where she covered music, comedy, and podcasting. There, she also contributed to the publication’s signature wealth lists, creating its first list of the highest-earning podcasters.

She has also interned at CNBC and Dow Jones.

Shapiro has a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds a master’s degree from New York 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.