OLD Media Moves

Swisher stepping away from hosting, organizing Code Conference

Kara Swisher

This year’s annual Code Conference from Vox Media will be tech journalist Kara Swisher‘s last year hosting and organizing the event, reports Sara Fischer of Axios.

Fischer reports, “Swisher, who recently rejoined Vox Media from the New York Times, plans to turn her attention toward new projects that explore topics beyond tech and reach a wider set of people.

“She’ll still appear on stage to conduct select marquee interviews at future Code Conferences.

“Catch up quick: When Swisher and veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg launched Code two decades ago, ‘it was a much smaller community,’ Swisher said.

“Today, Code has become one of the most established business-to-business tech conferences in the country, but its audience is exclusive.”

Read more here.

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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