Senior editor Alvarez departs Engadget for Input

Edgar Alvarez

Edgar Alvarez, a senior editor at tech site Engadget, is leaving the news organization to join Input magazine as a senior editor.

He starts next Monday. Input is a technology-focused publication being started by Josh Topolsky.

Alvarez has been at Engadget for eight years, starting as a contributing writer and moving up to associate editor. He became a senior editor in 2016. He was also lead video producer.

He also worked for SB Nation.

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.