VentureBeat hires Nuñez as editorial director

Michael Nuñez

Michael Nuñez has been hired by Venture Beat to be its editorial director.

He most recently has been at Playground Global as a senior marketing manager.

Nuñez previously was an associate editor at Forbes, a deputy tech editor at Mashable and tech editor at Gizmodo. He also worked at Popular Science and Newsweek.

He is a University of Missouri graduate.

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.