Skift hires Jorden for news team

Travel freelancer Rashaad Jorden will be joining travel industry news site Skift as editorial assistant.

He will start May 24.

In this role, Jorden will assist editor-in-chief Tom Lowry with production and edit duties, including with newsletters, podcasts and social media. In addition, he will continue writing stories from time to time.

Jorden previously freelanced for Skift, writing stories on varied topics from racism’s impact on tourism in U.S. Chinatowns to global tour operators reviving their businesses with bookings from vaccinated seniors. Before that, he wrote for the Ethical Traveler and taught English in Japan as part of the Association for Japan Exchange and Teaching (AJET) program.

Jorden holds an undergraduate degree in English and media arts from Coppin State University, a 121-year-old HBCU in Baltimore, and a master’s degree in responsible tourism management from Leeds Beckett University in the UK.

He will be based in South Jersey.

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.