Billboard executive editor hired by tech company to launch publication

Nick Catucci

Tech company influence.co announced Wednesday that Nick Catucci, the former executive editor of Billboard Magazine, has joined the company.

Catucci will be the company’s first editor in chief overseeing influence.co’s new media publication, nofilter, which will launch later this month.

Nofilter will cover influencers and creators.

“I’ve spent more than a decade covering the music industry, which drives so much of culture today,” said Catucci in a statement. “It became clear that there was a unique opportunity to develop the first dedicated media property for telling authentic stories by, for and about influencers and creators.”

At Billboard, Catucci helped spearhead a revamp of the trade publication. During his time at RollingStone.com, he expanded the site into a cross-platform destination for entertainment and politics.

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.