Fast Company hired VentureBeat’s Sullivan

Mark Sullivan, a reporter at VentureBeat, has been hired by Fast Company magazine as a senior writer.

Sullivan will cover stories about major consumer hardware and software companies for Fast Company.

Sullivan was at VentureBeat for 21 months, covering Apple and health technology. He previously was a senior editor for nearly seven years at PCWorld and TechHive, where he Iwrote blogs, news, tech product and internet service reviews, opinion and commentary, event coverage, live blogs, video scripts, explainers, guides and how-to’s.

He also previously worked at Light Reading.

Sullivan has degrees from Creighton University and Northwestern University.

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.