Facebook hires Bloomberg social media editor

Dan Fletcher, the social media editor at Bloomberg News, has been hired by Facebook to be its managing editor, reports Kevin Lincoln of Business Insider.

Lincoln writes, “Both Fletcher and sources at Facebook confirmed that Fletcher will make the move, but weren’t ready yet to discuss what his responsibilities will be at Facebook.

“Another source tells us that Facebook could be looking at LinkedIn’s LinkedIn Today as a possible model.

“Fletcher graduated from Northwestern University in 2009, where he majored in journalism. Prior to Bloomberg, he worked as special projects editor at Time.”

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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.