Skift hires Haris as managing editor

Lex Haris

Travel industry news site Skift has hired Lex Haris to be its managing editor.

Haris was previously vice president of editorial for CBSNews.com, but left that position in February 2022.

He was also previously executive editor of investigations at CNN and executive editor of CNNMoney. He had been with CNNMoney from 2001 to 2017, and had been the site’s managing editor from 2007 to 2014.

Among his many accomplishments was taking the CNNMoney staff away from commoditized news gathering, and building out the newsroom with a team of journalists – not only in New York, but in London and Hong Kong.

“That someone of his caliber — previous edit leadership positions at CNN & CBS News — would trust us with the next phase of his career speaks volumes to what we have built here,” said Skift founder Rafat Ali on LinkedIn.

Haris was also executive editor of Individual Investor Magazine.

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.