Marker senior writer Walker takes buyout

Rob Walker

Rob Walker, a senior writer at Medium’s business magazine Marker, is taking the company’s buyout.

His last day will be April 7.

Walker covers design, technology, business, the arts, and other subjects. He is also a columnist for Marker.

He has contributed to The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, NewYorker.Com, Design Observer, The Organist, and many others. His latest book is “The Art of Noticing” (Knopf). He is on the faculty of the Products of Design MFA program at the School of Visual Arts.

At The Times, he wrote The Workologist column for five years.

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.