Categories: OLD Media Moves

Industry Dive continues expansion with restaurant newsletter

Industry Dive, a Washington-based business news operation that delivers its news via email, has started a new newsletter called Restaurant Dive.

The new publication covers technology and trends impacting food service, such as delivery innovations, artificial intelligence platforms, menu trends, labor laws, sustainability, restaurant tech, and shifting consumer tastes.

The company is currently searching for an experienced reporter for Restaurant Dive but couldn’t find one by the Monday launch date. It launched with Thai Phi Le and Emma Liem running it from a full-time editorial perspective. They both have been working on the Food Dive publication.

“It’s a good fit in our portfolio,” said CEO Sean Griffey in an email. “It builds on our coverage in food and grocery but offers its own challenges and unique opportunities. It’s an exciting time in the space.”

The new publication continues the company’s expansion. The following journalists have all started since mid-August:

Kaarin Vembar – editor of Retail Dive
Hallie Busta – editor of Education Dive
Samantha Liss – a reporter for Healthcare Dive
Natalie Schwartz – associate editor of Education Dive
Emma Cosgrove – a reporter for Supply Chain Dive
Lillianna Byington – associate editor of Food Dive
Jessie Campisi – associate editor of Education Dive

Griffey said that the company has also hired a reporter to cover the waste in the recycling industry who will start in a few weeks. The newsroom is now 56 full-time staffers, and Industry Dive is still looking to hire reporters and editors to cover the biopharma, retail, medical technology and human resources industries in addition to the restaurant beat.

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.