Vice Motherboard reporter Jackson departs

Gita Jackson

Gita Jackson, a reporter at Vice Motherboard, is leaving the news organization.

She has been at Motherboard since January 2020 and has been covering internet culture, labor in comics and video games, fandom, and “content.”

She previously worked at Kotaku and Paste Magazine, and has been published by GQ and MTV News.

Gita grew up playing games with her older brother, and learned to appreciate them as an academic while obtaining a degree in cinema studies from Oberlin College.

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.