Swant joins Digiday to cover technology and marketing

Marty Swant

Marty Swant has joined Digiday as a senior reporter covering marketing and technology.

He previously was editor of the Forbes CMO Network and a staff writer at Forbes covering marketing, advertising and technology.

Previously, he was at Adweek, where he reported on emerging technologies including virtual reality, augmented reality, and blockchain. He also covered agencies, brands, and the growing intersection of Silicon Valley and Washington D.C.

He previously worked as a political reporter at the Associated Press and as a freelancer. He was also a business reporter at the Alabama Media Group and has interned at Standard & Poor’s.

Swant graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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.