Slate hires new biz/tech editor

Slate has hired a new business and technology editor, a spokeswoman confirmed Monday to Talking Biz News.

Jessica Winter, formerly a senior editor at Time, will be joining Slate on June 10. She’ll work from Slate’s New York office.

Winter has long been a contributor to Slate, writing about film, culture, her own identity theft and other subjects. She’s a frequent contributor to Bookforum and her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Guardian and many other publications.

She joined Time in March 2011 after three years as a senior editor at O, The Oprah Magazine.

Winter holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.A. from University College London.

Slate is an online magazine that is owned by The Washington Post Co., and does not charge for access. It is supported by advertising revenues.

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.