Matsakis joins Wired as a staff writer

Louise Matsakis has joined Wired magazine as a staff writer in New York.

Her first day was Monday.

Matsakis writes predominantly about technology and the internet. She’s mostly interested in major tech companies such as Apple and Google, cyberlaw, the automation of social media, and online communities.

She used to be an editor at Motherboard, VICE Media’s technology and science site. Before that, she was an editor at Mashable.

Matsakis has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from New York University.

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.