Fusion hires New York magazine biz/tech writer Roose

Kevin Roose, who covers business and technology stories for New York Magazine, has been hired by Fusion.

Edmund Lee of Re/code writes, “Roose’s move comes a week after Bloomberg used its deep pockets to hire Business Insider editor Joe Weisenthal. He’s supposed to create a new site and TV show for the Wall Street data service, which has been on a hiring spree of its own.

“Alexis Madrigal, Fusion’s Silicon Valley bureau chief, who recently joined from TheAtlantic.com, said Fusion’s tech section will be, ‘kind of R&D lab for how to do interesting tech journalism.’

“Roose said, ‘We’re going to be constantly tweaking and adding and trying to figure out what works, and the freedom and leeway and the mission of Fusion is to experiment.’

“Madrigal also sees it as a chance to bring back some of the Futurist sensibility that accompanied tech coverage of the past. ‘A lot of fun has gone out of technology reporting across the board and we want to put that back in,’ he said.”

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