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Sherr named editor at large at CNET

Ian Sherr

Ian Sherr, an executive editor at tech news site CNET News, has been named an editor at large at the website.

“Now I’ll be writing and reporting even more stories I’m passionate about!” he wrote on LinkedIn.

Sherr has been writing about Microsoft, virtual reality and video games and managing coverage of social networking, Internet giants, cybersecurity, the sharing economy, venture capital and wearable tech.

Before joining CNET in June 2014, he wrote about consumer technology from The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau. He covered everything from video games to smartphones and computers made by Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard.

Before that, he covered microchip companies and the retail sector for Reuters news in its San Francisco and Chicago bureaus.

He’s a graduate of the University of California-Santa Cruz and the Cal-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

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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