The Markup hires Tate as an editor

Ryan Tate

Tech news site The Markup has hired Ryan Tate to be an editor.

He previously was deputy editor and technology editor at The Intercept. Tate was also a senior writer at Wired magazine, where he helped launch a new vertical.

Tate also worked at Valleywag as a writer and as night editor at Gawker. He is the author of “The 20% Doctrine: How Tinkering, Goofing Off and Breaking the Rules at Work Drive Success.”

Tate is a graduate of the University of California-Berkeley.

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.