Goggin hired by NBC News as deputy tech editor

Benjamin Goggin

NBC News has hired Benjamin Goggin as deputy tech editor.

He will start in January.

Goggin has been digital culture editor at Insider. Previously, he was a weekend editor.

Prior to joining Insider, Goggin was working independently. Before that, he was a culture editor at Inverse and held the posts of associate editor and news editor at Digg. He has also served as a student body senator and politicorps fellow.

He is also the founder and director of Frontiers Human Rights. Additionally, he has also worked as a finance intern and research assistant.

Goggin holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Reed College.

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.