Gizmodo editor Biggs departs organization

John Biggs

Tech news site Gizmodo editor in chief John Biggs has left the news organization.

He joined in July 2020 and was previously editor of Gizmodo from 2003 to 2005. He had been editor of CoinDesk since May 2019 before that.

Biggs has two decades experience as a tech editor and journalist across sites such as CrunchGear and TechCrunch.

His work has appeared in The New York Times, Wired, Men’s Health, Popular Science, and others, covering topics like 3D printing, hardware startups, and blockchain. Prior to becoming a technology journali, Biggs spent three years as an IT programmer.

Biggs runs the “Technotopia” podcast, which discusses the future of technology, and has authored five books, including “Bloggers Boot Camp” and “Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age.”

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.