The Messenger hires Brown as deputy editor of sci/tech coverage

Abram Brown

News startup The Messenger has hired Abram Brown to be deputy editor of its science and technology coverage.

He has been at The Information as a staff editor on its weekend magazine, covering wealth, power and technology and how those shape culture and the world.

Brown had previously been at Forbes since January 2012. He has been deputy chief of reporters, associate editor, editorial operations manager, and a senior editor.

He has covered digital culture and social media, particularly TikTok, the NFT boom, the creator economy, and YouTube and technology in the COVID era.

Brown is a Syracuse University graduate.

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.