Gizmodo news editor Menegus laid off

Bryan Menegus

Tech site Gizmodo has laid off news editor Bryan Menegus.

“My colleagues were some of the best, smartest people on their beats and I’ll miss them dearly,” he wrote on Twitter.

Menegus joined Gizmodo in February 2016 covering internet culture, became a senior reporter focusing on labor and most recently switched to editing.

He previously was a senior editor at Digg.

Menegus is a graduate of Hofstra University.

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.