Fiegerman becomes CNN tech editor

Seth Fiegerman

Seth Fiegerman has been promoted to tech editor at CNN.

He has been with the cable channel since 2016 as a tech writer based in the New York bureau. On Twitter, Fiegerman said he would continue to write.

Before CNN, he spent four years as the senior business reporter for Mashable, covering the biggest tech companies and startups shaping our lives. He wrote definitively on Google’s failed attempt to kill Facebook, the stumbles and desperation of Twitter’s staff in the year after going public, and Reddit’s strange, turbulent history.

Before joining Fiegerman, Seth worked at Business Insider, TheStreet and Playboy.

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.