Biz journalist McCarthy named executive editor of MIT Tech Review

Megan McCarthy

Business journalist Megan McCarthy has been named executive editor of the MIT Technology Review.

She starts Feb. 20 and will report to editor in chief Gideon Lichfield.

Most recently, McCarthy was head of editorial strategy at Alley Interactive, an agency that builds digital platforms for publishers.

Before that, McCarthy was deputy managing editor of Fortune.com, and she had been deputy technology editor at Reuters, where she did everything from editing tech stories to managing the homepage of Reuters.com.

Previously she was a news editor at the New York Observer, the founding editor of Mediagazer, the first human editor at Techmeme, and a writer at Wired.com and Valleywag.

“Her experience and ideas will be invaluable to us in establishing MIT Technology Review as not only the leading voice on how new technologies will affect the world but also as a powerhouse of journalistic creativity and innovation,” said Lichfield in a statement.

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.