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Ex-WSJ biz journalist Narisetti to run former Gawker Media

Raju Narisetti

News Corp. executive Raju Narisetti, a former business journalist at The Wall Street Journal, has been named the CEO of Gizmodo Media Group, which is the Gawker operation purchased by Univision, reports Brian Stelter of CNNMoney.

Stelter writes, “Narisetti is currently the senior vice president of strategy at News Corp, the Murdoch family’s print and digital media company. He brings both journalistic expertise and digital media understanding to the job.

“He will move to Gizmodo Media Group — named for Gawker’s tech blog Gizmodo — in late October.

“Last month Univision acquired all of Gawker Media’s web sites with the exception of Gawker.com. The flagship blog has been embroiled in bitter litigation with Hulk Hogan over a 2012 post about a sex tape. The litigation has been financed by billionaire tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel.

“The legal battle forced Gawker Media and Denton into bankruptcy earlier this year.

“The company, minus Gawker.com, emerged out of bankruptcy in Univision’s hands last month.”

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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.

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