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New hires at Fast Company

Fast Company magazine announced Wednesday that Thomas Foster will join the magazine as articles editor and Jeff Chu will join the staff as a senior editor. Â

Both will begin on Sept. 4 and will report to Fast Company’s editor and managing director Robert Safian.

Foster was most recently the editor of Men’s Journal, where he planned all content and oversaw a staff of 30 editors.  Under his leadership, he oversaw a redesign, dramatically improved the quality of the writing and photography, produced the second best-selling cover in the magazine’s history and published the two largest issues to date.

Prior to joining Men’s Journal, Foster held positions as Features Editor at Men’s Health, Contributing Editor at Best Life, and was a freelance writer for Wenner Books.  He is a graduate of Trinity University and the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Chu, who was offered and accepted his new position at Fast Company on Facebook, was most recently a senior associate editor at Portfolio where he created consumer product and travel sections.  Prior to his brief stint at Portfolio he held positions at Time magazine, where he wrote and reported then edited the high-pressure front-of-the-book news section, Notebook and Time’s European edition, where he was based in London and created cover stories on everything from Arab women’s rights to Tony Blair’s government to the James Bond film franchise.Â

Chu is a graduate of Princeton University and London School of Economics.

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.

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