Categories: OLD Media Moves

CNET editor in chief jumps to Coupons.com

Paul Sloan, a veteran business journalist who was most recently editor in chief at CNET, has jumped to Coupons.com where he will be head of communications.

Cromwell Shuberth of the Silicon Valley Business Journal writes, “In addition to his time at CBS Interactive’s CNET, Sloan has worked at Fortune, Business 2.0, CNN Bloomberg and U.S. News and World Report.

Bloomberg reported last month that the Mountain View company led by CEO Steven Boal has hired bankers in anticipation of going public this year.

“The online discount distributor has raised about $228 million since it was founded in 1998. It is reportedly valued at $1.09 billion and its backers include Greylock Partners and Passport Capital.

“Coupons.com makes money when a customers download coupons for redemption through customers who include General Mills and Walgreen.”

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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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