Skift hires Mullaney to cover travel technology

Tim Mullaney

Travel industry news site Skift has hired Tim Mullaney to take over its travel technology coverage.

He will start May 16.

Mullaney will write the Travel Tech Briefing and Travel Startup Funding columns as well as stories.

Mullaney has been a financial journalist for more than three decades. He has held positions like national economics correspondent at USA Today and e-business editor of BusinessWeek. Before that, he was a reporter for Bloomberg News, The Sun, and Dow Jones Newswires. His freelance work has appeared on CNBC, TheStreet, The New York Times, and The Motley Fool.

Mullaney graduated from the University of Maryland with a JD in law and from Columbia with a Master of Science in journalism. He also holds an undergraduate degree from The Catholic University of America in politics.

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.