Slate’s biz and tech editor Fischer departing

Jonathan Fischer

Jonathan Fischer, the business and technology editor of Slate, is leaving after nine years.

He was technology editor from May 2018 to August 2022 when he took on the business editing responsibilities as well. Previously, he was a senior editor.

Fischer previously was arts editor and managing editor of the Washington City Paper and arts editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin.

He is a graduate of Brandeis University.

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.