Fast Company hires Hofman as executive editor and head of digital

Mike Hofman

Fast Company editor in chief Stephanie Mehta sent out the following announcement to the staff:

Please join me welcoming Fast Company’s new executive editor and head of digital, Mike Hofman.
Mike most recently was a vice president of content and digital strategy at Xerox, and he has held executive digital director positions at GQ and Glamour. He doubled traffic on both sites, where he led content, design, user experience, audience development, and more.
If Mike’s name sounds familiar perhaps it is because his byline has appeared in Fortune, Marker, and other business and news sites for his reporting on WeWork, startups, and politics. Or perhaps it is because he served in various editorial roles at Inc. from 1996 to 2011, including serving as editor of Inc.com.
Mike until 2020 served as chair of the Anti-Violence Project. During his tenure on the board, AVP recruited the first woman of color to serve as executive director of the 40-year-old nonprofit; and together, they worked to expand and diversify AVP’s board. He is a graduate of Boston College.
Mike’s first day is October 25, and he’ll be based in New York.

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.