Observer hires Simonetti to cover tech and creator economy

Isabella Simonetti

The Observer in New York has hired Isabella Simonetti to cover technology and the creator economy.

Simonetti started on Monday. She previously was interning at Bloomberg News.

She also interned at Her Money, Vox, the New York Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Simonetti is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. While there, she was president of The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper.

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.