Skift hires Santana to cover the restaurant industry

Danni Santana 2014/08/20. Photo credit: ©Skyler Reid

Skift, which covers the travel, restaurant and wellness industries, has hired Danni Santana to cover the restaurant business.

“I am now excited to join the Skift Table team, and cover restaurants and chains full time because it is an industry I have followed closely from a consumer point of view for a few years now,” said Santana. “I also get to bring my B2B journalism experience and apply it to this rapidly changing industry.”

Santana was previously associate editor of Digital Insurance, formerly Insurance Networking News. He covered the technology strategies of insurance companies around artificial intelligence, big data and more.

He also oversaw the publication’s social media accounts, and was the point person for its content management system.

Santana also interned at ALM Media and Crain’s New York Business. He holds a master’s degree from the CUNY 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.