Former CNBC tech editor Hunter joins Weber Shandwick

Matt Hunter

Matt Hunter, who was senior technology editor at CNBC.com before leaving in May, has been hired by Weber Shandwick.

His title is senior editor.

Hunter had been in charge of CNBC’s technology coverage since November 2013. He oversaw coverage of start-ups, established companies, and the ways the industry is re-ordering every level of society.

Before that, Hunter was a news editor for CNBC.com for eight years. He joined CNBC in 2007. Hunter also spent two years at American Banker and two years at Institutional Investor.

He’s a 1994 graduate of Hampshire College.

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.