Categories: OLD Media Moves

BuzzFeed biz editor Gara to run new opinion section

Tom Gara

Tom Gara, the business editor of BuzzFeed since December 2014, has been tapped to run the website’s new opinion section.

He will start his new position on July 10.

Gara joined BuzzFeed in September 2014. He had been editor of the Journal’s Corporate Intelligence blog for the previous two years. He has also worked at The Financial Times as Gulf news editor in Dubai, Egypt Today and The National.

He is a graduate of the University of Adelaide.

As for the new opinion section, BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith wrote, “Tom will seek out and publish authoritative voices from around the world, and occasionally from inside the newsroom. Our goal is to address the rapidly changing world and to contextualize it in ways to help our readers make sense of what the hell is happening.”

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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