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NYTimes tech writer Wortham joining NYTimes Magazine

In a memo to staff, New York Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein announced that Jenna Wortham will join the magazine as a staff writer.

Silverstein wrote:

I’m very happy to announce that the great and wonderful Jenna Wortham, a.k.a. Jenny Deluxe, is joining the magazine as a staff writer. Jenna, as many of you already know, joins the magazine from the Business desk, where over the past six years, she has been one of the most savvy and intelligent voices anywhere covering digital business and culture.

As a columnist, Jenna has been a great synthesizer of the ideas, trends, memes, and imagery that swarm through our collective mind, someone who can be counted on to rove widely and perceptively through the digital terrain. Before joining The Times, Jenna did a stint at Wired and her work has also appeared in Matter, the Awl, Bust magazine, The Hairpin, Vogue, The Morning News, Fader and various other publications.

At the magazine, Jenna will continue to cover digital business and culture broadly speaking. She’ll be an essential part of our revamped digital presence and one of our most important voices online and on social media. Her first day at the magazine will be December 15. Please join me in congratulating Jenna on this move.

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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