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Variety chief correspondent Wagmeister is departing

Elizabeth Wagmeister

Elizabeth Wagmeister, chief correspondent at Variety, is leaving the publication for a new opportunity.

“Thank you to my colleagues for teaching me every day,” said Wagmeister in a note to her co-workers. “You have all become family.”

Wagmeister covered breaking news in the entertainment industry on all multimedia platforms, as well as longform investigations and write feature stories. After being named chief correspondent in 2021, Wagmeister developed video content for Variety, both as a producer and host.

Wagmeister joined Variety in 2014 as a TV reporter.

She emerged as a top investigative correspondent, covering the sexual assault trial of Harvey Weinstein, the conservatorship saga of Britney Spears and the sexual misconduct allegations that led to Matt Lauer’s firing from “Today” in 2017.

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.

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