Categories: OLD Media Moves

Bloomberg Media exec leaving for New Republic

Gabriel Snyder, who was hired by Bloomberg Media in March to boost its digital efforts, has resigned to become editor of The New Republic, according to media reports.

Snyder is a former editor in chief of The Wire, a website owned by Atlantic Media, and was chief content officer of Inside.com, a mobile news start-up founded by the web entrepreneur Jason Calacanis.

He previously edited Gawker and the website of Newsweek.

Snyder was also a senior writer for Variety and W Magazine, and he worked for US Weekly and The New York Observer. He is a Yale University 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.