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Protocol hires Statt to cover video game industry

Nick Statt

Tech news site Protocol has hired Nick Statt to cover the video game industry.

He will start later this month.

“It’s a beat I’ve been passionate about for most of the last decade and I am psyched to dive into it full time,” he wrote on Twitter.

He is currently at The Verge as a New York-based reporter and news editor covering gaming, apps, and antitrust. He has been with The Verge since September 2015.

Statt previously spent two years at CNET covering breaking technology stories for CNET.com’s news vertical. He wrote breaking news of Nike’s FuelBand shutdown and an investigation into the realities of the perceived tech industry skill gap.

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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