Categories: OLD Media Moves

“Planet Money” co-founder Davidson headed to New Yorker

Adam Davidson, best known as one of the co-founders of the public radio show “Planet Money,” is headed to the New Yorker, writes Joe Pompeo of Politico.

Pompeo writes, “At the Times Mag, Davidson was contracted to write the ‘On Money’ column, as well as to contribute feature stories. As a contributing writer at The New Yorker, he will cover business and economics for newyorker.com starting August 30.

“It’s not often that fancy magazine people trade in print gigs for digital ones, so this move would appear to show that New Yorker editor in chief David Remnick and his deputies are serious about investing in the website, which they entrusted to Nicholas Thompson, a longtime print editor, several years ago. Davidson’s also a public radio veteran, podcast host and the co-founder of NPR’s ‘Planet Money.'”

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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.