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Boston Globe hires Huang as business editor

Greg Huang

The Boston Globe has hired Gregory Huang as its new business editor.

He previously was the editor in chief of Xconomy, where he oversaw daily news, features, and events across Xconomy’s national network.

Before joining Xconomy in 2008, he was a features editor at New Scientist magazine, where he edited and wrote articles on physics, technology and neuroscience. Previously he was senior writer at MIT Technology Review, where he reported on emerging technologies, research and development, and advances in computing, robotics, and applied physics.

His writing has also appeared in Wired, Nature, and The Atlantic Monthly’s website. He was named a New York Times professional fellow in 2003.

He is the co-author of “Guanxi” (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations.

He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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.

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