CNET senior reporter Rubin leaving for Mastercard

Ben Fox Rubin

Ben Fox Rubin, a senior reporter at CNET, is leaving the technology news site for a job at Mastercard.

His last day is Friday. “I have loved my time at CNET and as a reporter. It’s sad to leave but I’m excited to see what’s next,” he said on Twitter.

He has been with CNET since 2014 covering Amazon, e-commerce and payments, and he was the co-creator of CNET’s daily podcast The Daily Charge. He previously spent three years on The Wall Street Journal’s real-time news desk.

Rubin also worked for newspapers in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York.

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.