Murphy departing Protocol for IBM Research

Mike Murphy

Mike Murphy, special projects director at Protocol, is leaving the tech news site to become a scientific writer for IBM Research.

“I loved covering transformation across so many different industries, and I’ll continue to be a loyal reader,” he wrote on Twitter.

He joined the tech news site in 2019 as its transformation editor, focusing on the industries being rapidly upended by technology, and the companies that are disrupting their incumbents.

Previously, Murphy was technology editor at Quartz, where he frequently wrote on robotics, artificial intelligence and consumer electronics.

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.