Longtime business journalist Tom Lowry has been hired by entertainment industry news site The Wrap as senior vice president of editorial strategy.
He will start on Feb. 10 and be based in New York.
“The SVP role will allow me to leverage my experiences helping to supercharge business coverage working with The Wrap’s next business editor and broader edit team,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “More strategically, I will also be able to lean into my experience elevating digital brands by building audiences.”
Lowry previously was senior editor in business for The Messenger, which shut down last year. He was also editor in chief of Skift, a website focused on the business of travel, as well as its managing editor.
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.
