Swisher leaving NY Times and returning to Vox

Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher, the prominent tech reporter, commentator and Recode co-founder, is leaving her role as columnist and podcaster at the New York Times to return to Vox Media, reports Ashley Carman of Bloomberg News.

Carman reports, “Swisher will host a new interview show at the Vox Media Podcast Network that will serve as a companion to ‘Pivot,’ a business and technology program she’s co-hosted with New York University professor Scott Galloway for nearly four years. The new show is slated to launch in the fall and will be introduced at Vox Media’s upfront event Vox Media Now on June 9.

“Swisher said she’s become ‘very interested’ in owning intellectual property and sharing in the benefits of building a business alongside a partner. That interest, along with wanting to try new formats and create new things, spurred her move.

“‘I’m 60 years old this year, I’ve made a lot of stuff for a lot of people,’ Swisher said in an interview. ‘I want to do what I want to do. I want to make whatever I want to make, and I think that’s a great thing.'”

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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.