Axios hires Flynn for media deals newsletter

Kerry Flynn

Axios has hired CNN Business media reporter Kerry Flynn to co-lead a media deals newsletter.

She has been covering the media industry for CNN Business since August 2019, focusing on media giants, digital media, magazines, newspapers, etc.

Flynn was previously a platforms reporter at Digiday.

Flynn was previously a reporter at Mashable, where she was a business reporter covering the business of tech giants and Silicon Valley culture. She’s reported on the people selling Instagram verification, influencers abandoning Twitter’s Periscope and Snapchat fudging its user numbers. Before that she was a tech reporter for International Business Times.

She’s also written for The Huffington Post, Forbes and Money magazine.

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.