Social media manager Whitcomb departs Wired

Alex Baker-Whitcomb

Alex Baker-Whitcomb is the senior social manager at Wired, is leaving after more than six year.

He worked on overall strategy for social platforms ranging from Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to Apple News and Flipboard. Previously he worked at Facebook, Oculus, and served as the media director for a stock car racing tour.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Vermont.

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.