Biz journalist Lowry hired as ME of Skift

Tom Lowry

Longtime business journalist Tom Lowry has been hired as managing editor of Skift, a website focused on the business of travel.

His first day is Monday.

Lowry is overseeing a growing team of reporters, working closely with a research division and participating in Skift’s global conferences business.

Skift was co-founded six years ago by Rafat Ali, formerly of PaidContent, and Jason Clampet, formerly of Frommer’s.

The company has about 50 employees now.

Skift is part of the trend toward vertical or niche media such as The Information, STAT, The Marshall Project, Poets & Quants, The Trace, and The Business of Fashion, to name a few.

Lowry was former senior editor of CNBC.com before leaving in 2017. He joined CNBC in April 2013 to build an enterprise news desk. He previously was business editor of The Daily, senior editor at Variety and media editor at BusinessWeek. He also worked at USA Today and the New York Daily News.

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.