The Wrap hires Bel Bruno as editor at large

Joe Bel Bruno

Entertainment industry site The Wrap has hired longtime business journalist Joe Bel Bruno as editor at large for business coverage.

Bel Bruno will be writing deep analysis and reported insight pieces around the disrupted world of media, entertainment and technology.

He most recently was the founding editor of tech news site dotLA. He previously been at Variety as managing editor. Before that, he was the news director at the Hollywood Reporter.

He has also overseen entertainment coverage and was deputy business editor of the Los Angeles Times.

Before joining The Times, Bel Bruno ran markets coverage for the Dow Jones news wire and the Wall Street Journal. From 2004 to 2009, Bel Bruno was a national business writer for the Associated Press in New York, where he served as the lead stock market reporter and anchored the news service’s coverage of the financial crisis.

He spent three years in London as senior correspondent for Knight Ridder Financial/Bridge News.

He’s also held spots at The Orange Country Register, Copley News Service and The Bond Buyer newspaper.

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.