Digital producer Belanger leaves Wired as part of layoffs

Lydia Belanger

Digital producer Lydia Belanger was among those laid off at Wired magazine late last week.

Senior writer Brian Raftery and senior editor Alexis Sobel Fitts were also laid off from Wired.

This was Belanger’s second stint at Wired. She previously worked there as a researcher.

She has also worked at Entrepreneur magazine as a reporter and editor. While there she reported and wrote a weekly column called “The Way We Work” about workplace issues, culture, and productivity. She also report and wrote a biweekly women entrepreneur column called “Behind the Numbers.”

Belanger interned for Inc. and is a Northwestern University graduate in journalism.

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.