Wired hires Kelly for politics team

Makena Kelly

Wired has hired Makena Kelly as a senior writer for its new politics team.

She will start on Nov. 27.

Kelly joins from The Verge, where she was a politics reporter, covering ground-breaking investigative news at the intersection of tech, politics, and business.

Before The Verge, Kelly interned at the Lincoln Journal Star in Nebraska. She is a graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan 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.