Sorokanich hired as editor in chief of Jalopnik

Bob Sorokanich

Car industry news site Jalopnik has hired Bob Sorokanich as its editor in chief, reports Tony Silber of Publishers Daily.

Silber reports, “Sorokanich will oversee all content creation and original reporting across the outlet. He starts on April 11.

“Sorokanich will be tasked with building on Jalopnik’s strong 2022 traffic and advertising momentum.

“G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller said Sorokanich is a ‘smart, strategic editor who lives and breathes cars — the absolute perfect person to lead Jalopnik into its next phase. We fully expect Bob to lead Jalopnik to be the number-one auto enthusiast site in the world.’

“Sorokanich most recently was at Hearst Magazines, where he was deputy editor of Road & Track.”

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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.