Categories: OLD Media Moves

Re/code hires new social media reporter

Kurt Wagner, who has been covering social media for Mashable, has been hired by tech news site Re/code to cover the same beat.

He replaces Mike Isaac, who left Re/code in June to join the New York Times.

Wagner will start on Aug. 4 and will be based in San Francisco.

At Mashable, Wagner reports on breaking news, executive turnover, business strategies, and consumer products while covering the world’s largest social media companies, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Google.

Prior to Mashable, Wagner was a tech reporter at Fortune. He holds a B.S. in communication and political science from Santa Clara University.

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.