Bloomberg Businessweek’s Grobart hired as executive editor of CNN Tech

Sam Grobart

Sam Grobart has been hired as the new executive editor of CNN Tech based in New York.

Grobart joins CNN from Bloomberg Businessweek where he was a writer and managing editor of Bloomberg’s digital video team.

Prior to that, Grobart was the personal technology editor and assistant technology editor at The New York Times. He was also vice president and managing editor of the now-defunct personal finance website FiLife.com.

Grobart was also a senior editor at Money magazine and a news editor at The Wall Street Journal. He also worked at New York Magazine, Esquire and Popular Science.

He is a Kenyon College graduate.

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.