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Smalera hired as digital editor at Fast Company

Paul Smalera

Paul Smalera, the ideas editor at Quartz, has been hired as digital editor of FastCompany.

He replaces Noah Robischon, who left last month. Fast Company has also hired a new editor, Stephanie Mehta, in the past month.

Smalera has been with Quartz since November 2014. He joined the website from The New York Times, where he was the founding editor of its Op-Talk site and led the editorial team for the NYT Opinion iPhone app.

He earlier worked at Reuters, where he was technology editor, product manager for a new content management system, and deputy opinion editor. He also was a senior editor for technology coverage at Fortune and spent seven years as a professional web developer.

He holds a degree in philosophy from George Washington University.

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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