Categories: OLD Media Moves

Roth leaves Portfolio for Wired

Daniel Roth, who joined Conde Nast Portfolio from Fortune, is now leaving the new business magazine for Wired, writes Stephanie Smith of Women’s Wear Daily.

Smith wrote, “Staffers found out about his departure late Wednesday afternoon in a brief e-mail circulated to the staff by managing editor Blaise Zerega. Roth will start his new position around Christmas.

“Roth was poached by Portfolio editor in chief Joanne Lipman from Fortune, where he had worked since 1998 alongside Katrina Brooker, who was also recruited by Lipman to join Portfolio during its launch. Brooker quit to return to Fortune in September, but Roth stayed, despite conversations with Time Inc. editor in chief John Huey and Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer about his return to Time Inc.

“Roth was said to have a good working relationship with Lipman, but sources close to the magazine say Portfolio’s tumultuous working environment â€” with its constant media scrutiny and frequent staff departures that have led to a steady increase in the number of staffers from Lipman’s old stomping grounds at The Wall Street Journal became too much for Roth.”

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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.