Farnsworth leaving Wired for Google

Meghann Farnsworth

Meghann Farnsworth, director of social media at Wired, is leaving the publication to join the communications team at Google.

“I will miss this wonderful Wired team and am so incredibly proud of the work we did together,” she wrote on Twitter.

Fransworth was previously engagement editor at Recode. Before joining Recode, she was the managing director of distribution, operations and engagement for Reveal and The Center for Investigative Reporting.

She also served as the senior digital media manager at Home Front Communications in Washington, D.C., and the associate editor of Forums at PBS NewsHour.

She was an inaugural member of the Online News Association-Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media in 2015, and has presented at conferences across the country, including SXSW, ONA, the Logan Symposium, the Reynolds Journalism Institute and others.

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.