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MIT Tech Review hires Byrnes as senior editor

Nanette Byrnes, who has worked for BusinessWeek and Reuters, has joined MIT Technology Review this week as senior editor of Business Reports.

Byrnes will work closely with senior staff to conceive, design, and produce one of our company’s most important products, its Business Reports. In this position, she will work with freelance writers to produce high-quality original content focused on how businesses strategically use and think about technology, and how that is evolving and changing.

In addition to Business Reports, she will managing several other special editorial projects each year.

At BusinessWeek, Byrnes had been a senior writer, specializing in corporate finance and management. She was previously associate editor, Corporations department editor, and a finance correspondent in the Los Angeles bureau.

At Reuters, Byrnes was part of the team that one a National Press Club award and a Gerald Loeb award for the Shell Games series.

Byrnes also worked at SmartMoney.

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.