CNET’s Bakalar moving to games division at Red Ventures

Jeff Bakalar

CNET editor at large Jeff Bakalar is moving to the games division of Red Ventures, which acquired CNET last year.

Bakalar will be working with Gamespot and another website about videogames, Giant Bomb, to help lead content strategy/development and partnerships.

“My deepest gratitude and respect goes out to all my friends and colleagues throughout the CNET family, to which I owe pretty much everything,” he wrote on Twitter.

Bakalar has been at CNET since 2007 and is a host for CNET video. He’s regularly featured on CBS and CBSN.

He founded the site’s longest-running podcast, “The 404 Show,” which ran for 10 years. He’s currently featured on Giant Bomb’s Giant Beastcast podcast.

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.