Executive editor Protalinski departs VentureBeat

Emil Protalinski

Emil Protalinski, the executive editor of VentureBeat, has left the news organization after more than six years.

“I’m looking for work. If you know of a publication interested in a hard-working tech editor and journalist, please don’t hesitate to reach out,” he wrote on Twitter.

Protalinski started at VentureBeat as a contributing writer in 2014.

He also worked at the Next Web, where he covered a wide range of tech news. Before The Next Web, Emil published stories at Neowin, Ars Technica, TechSpot, ZDNet, and CNET.

Protalinski is a graduate of the University of Toronto in computer science.

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.