Bloomberg’s Drummond hired as editor in chief of Gizmodo

Katie Drummond

Katie Drummond, a deputy editor at Bloomberg’s web operation, has been hired as editor in chief of tech news site Gizmodo.

On Twitter, Drummond wrote, “Being EIC of Gizmodo was an opportunity I could not pass up! It’s gonna be great!”

Before joining Bloomberg Businessweek in 2014, Drummond had been the assistant managing editor for the tech news site The Verge for seven months. Before that, she was the science editor at The Verge, launching Verge Science, the first new section at The Verge since the publication’s inception in 2011.

She was also a founding staff member of News Corp.’s The Daily, the first-ever daily news publication for iPads and other mobile devices. And she covered military research on Wired‘s defense blog, Danger Room, and previously worked at AOL News, where she reported on science and health news.

Drummond has also done freelance work for New Republic, New York Magazine, Popular Science, The Fix, Forbes, Global Post, Marie Claire and several other national outlets.

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.