Hollister returns to The Verge as senior news editor

Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister is returning to The Verge as senior news editor beginning Oct. 29.

One of the founding editors of The Verge, where he worked from 2011 to 2014, Hollister will oversee the website’s technology news team.

Prior to rejoining The Verge, Hollister served as a senior editor at CNET since September 2015. While there, he spearheaded a Speed Desk initiative that nearly tripled CNET’s traffic on quick breaking news stories.

Hollister also worked at Gizmodo, where he re-launched and led the product reviews program.

He is a graduate of University of California-Santa Barbara.

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.