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Abbruzzese promoted to business editor at Mashable

Jason Abbruzzese

Business reporter Jason Abbruzzese has been promoted to business editor at Mashable.

He replaces Heidi Moore, who left the website in April during a reorganization that resulted in job cuts.

At Mashable, Abbruzzese has covered the media and telecom industries. He will also oversee travel coverage for the site.

Abbruzzese joined Mashable in 2013 from the Financial Times, where he was a web editor.

At the FT, Abbruzzese was responsible for editing raw copy for content, style and grammar, and prepping content for FT.com with metadata, hyperlinks and appropriate tags. He contributed to a wide variety of sections of the paper and website including world news, company and market news, business life, beyondbrics, Alphaville, and the FT Data Blog.

Abbruzzese has a bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a master’s degree from Australian National 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.

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