Fortune reporter Kokalitcheva to join Axios

Kia Kokalitcheva

Kia Kokalitcheva, a tech reporter for Fortune, has been hired by startup news site Axios to cover tech and tech deals.

She joins Dan Primack, who left Fortune earlier this year to help Axios, which is being started by the Politico co-founders, get off the ground.

Kokalitcheva has been with Fortune for the past 22 months, covering technology and Silicon Valley with a focus on the “on-demand economy.”

Before that, she worked at VentureBeat for six months covering early-stage startups and funding.

Kokalitcheva is a 2012 graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in political economy.

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.