Slate hires Tran as senior tech editor

Tony Ho Tran

Slate has hired Tony Ho Tran to be its senior technology editor.

He previously was senior editor for innovation and tech at The Daily Beast.

He has been covering technology including artificial intelligence, robotics, VR/AR, electric vehicles, and biotechnology. He was previously a staff writer for Futurism, and a contributing writer for The Chicago Defender.

His work has been published in HuffPost, Narratively, Outside Magazine and Playboy.

Tran is a graduate of the University of Iowa.

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.