Verge’s Gartenberg departs for Google

Chaim Gartenberg

The Verge senior reporter Chaim Gartenberg has left the tech news site and is joining Google in internal communications.

He had been covering gizmos, gadgets, buttons, and USB-C standards.

Previously, he was a news editor.

Gartenberg has been with the Verge for 10 years, previously working as a reporter, covering beats, including general technology industry, gadgets through The Verge’s Circuit Breaker vertical, and entertainment. Before that, he was an editorial intern.

He has also contributed as a guest columnist on various topics in technology and technology news at SlashGear, an online magazine.

Gartenberg graduated from Rutgers 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.