Gizmodo hires WSJ’s Ewalt to be editor in chief

David Ewalt

Tech news site Gizmodo has hired David Ewalt of The Wall Street Journal to be editor in chief.

He has been at The Journal since February 2020, building new products including indexes, data-driven rankings, and investigative journalism.

Ewalt previously was at Reuters as special projects editor, editing special reports focused on technological innovation. He managed reporters, external partners, and in-house production teams.

He previously spent nine years at Forbes as a senior editor, launching the magazine’s annual rankings of America’s Best Colleges and The World’s Most Powerful People, and four years at Information Week.

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.