Vaughan hired as Fast Company editor in chief

Brendan Vaughan

Brendan Vaughan has been hired as editor in chief of Fast Company magazine.

Vaughan will start July 18.

He replaces Stephanie Mehta, who became CEO and chief content officer of its parent company Mansueto Ventures.

Vaughan has been a deputy editor at Insider since January, overseeing a desk dedicated to longform journalism and news analysis.

He previously was a senior editor at The Atlantic, editor in chief of GEN at Medium, executive editor of book publisher Ballantine Bantam Dell, executive editor of GQ magazine, and articles editor at Esquire magazine.

Vaughan holds a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University.

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.