Simonite moves to editing role at Wired

Tom Simonite

Wired senior writer Tom Simonite has moved to a role editing business stories at the magazine.

He has been at Wired since June 2017. In Simonite’s role as senior writer, focused on artificial intelligence and its vast potential to shape the future.

Simonite joined Wired from MIT Technology Review, where he served as San Francisco bureau chief. He has covered science and technology for more than a decade, and previously wrote and edited emerging technology coverage for New Scientist.

He holds a master’s degree from Imperial College London.

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.