Vanity Fair hires Black as tech and business correspondent

Julia Black

Vanity Fair has hired Julia Black to cover tech and business.

She will start in January.

Black previously worked at The Information covering tech policy and the Trump administration. She has been writing features about the companies and people in the tech world since joining the tech news site in July 2023.

She previously was at Insider as a senior correspondent. Black, who reported a story for the website about Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy, focused on in-depth investigations about the people and companies shaping our culture today for Insider.

Black previously worked in book publishing at HarperCollins, before heading to Esquire to write about pop culture and edit features. She also worked at Bon Appétit.

As an investigative business reporter, Black’s work has also appeared in Billboard, The Daily Beast, and others. She has also been writing for the daily media newsletter Off the Record.

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.