Rest of World hires Zelenko as deputy editor

Michael Zelenko

Rest of World, a news organization examining the impact of technology beyond the Western bubble, has hired Michael Zelenko as deputy editor.

“I’m super looking forward to having Michael join our arsenal of editors in New York,” wrote executive editor Anup Kaphle on Twitter.

Zelenko was executive editor at Medium and previously features editor and features director.

Before Medium, he worked at The Verge as a features editor for more than four years.

He was also editor at large at Bullett Magazine and an assistant editor at McSweeney’s.

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.