Digiday hires Kaplan as its news editor

Ilana Kaplan

Ilana Kaplan has been hired as the news editor at Digiday, which covers the media industry.

She started on Thursday.

Kaplan had been a culture writer for The Independent. She has also been a freelance writer for the past 10 years, and her work has been published in places such as The New York Times, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Billboard, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Glamour and Esquire.

She also has been a contributing editor at Paper Magazine and a contributing writer at Paste.

She graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in English and journalism and media studies.

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.