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Space writer Skibba departing Wired

Ramin Skibba

Ramin Skibba, a writer at Wired, is among those leaving the Conde Nast publication.

As Wired’s space writer, he covered space scientists, space environmentalists, space politics, space conflicts, and the space industry, from launch to re-entry.

Prior to joining Wired, Skibba freelanced for Scientific American, The Atlantic, Undark magazine, Slate, and other magazines, and before that, he explored the cosmos himself as an astrophysicist and he earned a master’s degree in science communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

He’s based in the Bay Area.

Reach out to Skibba via X/Twitter or LinkedIn.

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.

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