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Re/code co-founders appear on “Silicon Valley”

Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, the co-founders of the tech news site Re/code, made a cameo appearance on the HBO show “Silicon Valley.”

Amy Keyishian of Re/code writes, “It was the night of the double cameo by our fearless leaders, Re/code’s co-CEOs, Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.

“You might think that appearing on a TV show would be the kind of thing you would talk about for a year or more. Nope! As an insider in the peanut gallery, let me state for the record that last year Walt and Kara didn’t even mention they were doing this until the staff meeting right before the shoot, when they said they’d both be out of pocket for ‘this ‘Silicon Valley’ filming thing.’

“And afterward, they were reluctant to blab about what happened. Luckily we have extracted some deets.”

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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.