Skift hires Kopit as editor in chief

Sarah Kopit

Skift founder Rafat Ali has hired Sarah Kopit as editor in chief.

Ali writes, “Sarah Kopit joins us as Skift’s new EIC, in charge of all editorial, including setting the editorial direction, defining Skift’s themes and driving editorial excellence across all of our brands.

“Previously, Kopit was the Editor-in-Chief at the digital asset publication, The Block, and is a 14-year veteran of Bloomberg News.

“At Bloomberg, Sarah had several roles, including heading Bloomberg’s breaking news operations in the Americas and as the newsroom’s global social media czar, specializing in gathering market-moving news and intelligence.”

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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.