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Reuters hires McCarthy for tech team

Megan McCarthy, who had been news editor at the New York Observer for the past year, has been hired by Reuters.

Although there has been no internal announcement, McCarthy confirmed the change on Twitter this morning.

Paul Smalera, deputy editor of Reuters Opinion, tells Talking Biz News in an email that he and McCarthy “will be working on technology coverage on Reuters.com.”

Prior to joining The Observer, McCarthy was the first dedicated human editor at Techmeme, the algorithm-based technology-focused news aggregator. In March, 2010 she became the founding editor of Mediagazer, a Techmeme spinoff dedicated to aggregating the top media industry news of the day.

Previously she covered Silicon Valley startups for Wired.com and the Gawker Media blog Valleywag.

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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