The Markup named hottest in tech coverage

Technology news site The Markup has been named Adweek’s hottest tech site.

Trishla Ostwal writes, “The Markup, which has a small team of 25, makes its revenue via grants and small dollar donations from readers. Its weekly newsletter, Hello World, and its newsletter Klaxon, focused on reporting updates, grew to a combined 14,000 subscribers in 2021, which contributed to overall subscriber growth of 10% in 2021.

“The newsroom’s social footprint also grew month over month in 2021, up 51% on Instagram and 11% on Twitter.”

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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.