Digiday hires Burgi as senior editor

Michael Burgi

Digiday has hired Michael Burgi as a senior editor for media buying and planning.

He will cover how media agencies are transforming.

Burgi was previously senior vice president for DeGennaro Communications, overseeing content creation for clients such as Refinery 29. He previously was features editor and director of editorial partnerships for Adweek.

He was also former editor in chief and associate publisher of Mediaweek.

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.