Vanity Fair Hive executive editor Elder is departing

Miriam Elder

Miriam Elder, executive editor of Vanity Fair’s media, business and technology sub-section The Hive, is leaving after two years.

“It’s been a deeply enriching experience, working with some of the best reporters and editors in the biz,” she wrote on Twitter.

She plans to do some freelance reporting and book editing.

Elder was previously world editor and politics reporter for BuzzFeed News and was previously foreign and national security editor. She was formerly The Guardian‘s Moscow-based correspondent.

Her writings have been published by the Financial Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Atlantic, The International Herald Tribune and The Moscow Times.

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.