Herrman to join NY Times biz news desk to cover media

John Herrman

John Herrman, one of the inaugural David Carr Fellows at the New York Times, is joining the business news desk at the paper to cover media.

Herrman will cover the big social platforms and disinformation, a subject he spotted earlier than just about anyone when he was a writer at The Awl. He will continue writing the technology column for the Times Magazine.

Since arriving at the Times, Herrman has written about the changing media landscape, including penning a magazine story about Facebook’s promotion of partisan politics.

Before joining The Times, Herrman as a co-editor of The Awl and covered the Internet and technology at Gizmodo, Popular Mechanics and BuzzFeed.

A native of Cary, North Carolina, Herrman received his Master of Arts degree in English literature and philosophy from The University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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.