CNNBusiness hires Flynn to cover media

Kerry Flynn

CNNBusiness.com has hired Kerry Flynn to cover the media industry.

She will start later this month and focus on media giants, digital media, magazines, newspapers, etc.

Flynn is currently a platforms reporter at Digiday. She has been there since April 2018.

Flynn was previously a reporter at Mashable, where she was a business reporter covering the business of tech giants and Silicon Valley culture. She’s reported on the people selling Instagram verification, influencers abandoning Twitter’s Periscope and Snapchat fudging its user numbers. Before that she was a tech reporter for International Business Times.

She’s also written for The Huffington Post, Forbes and Money magazine.

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.