The Messenger hires Lowry as senior editor for business

Tom Lowry

News startup The Messenger has hired Tom Lowry to be a senior editor in business.

Lowry had been editor in chief of Skift, a website focused on the business of travel, as well as its managing editor.

“This will be my third news startup, and nothing comes close to the energy and collective sense of mission with everything to prove — I can’t wait to do my part to make The Messenger a success, starting May 8,” wrote Lowry on LinkedIn.

Lowry was former senior editor of CNBC.com before leaving in 2017. He joined CNBC in April 2013 to build an enterprise news desk.

He previously was business editor of The Daily, senior editor at Variety and media editor at BusinessWeek. He also worked at USA Today and the New York Daily News.

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.