Sutton hired by Adweek to cover tech

Kelsey Sutton

Mic reporter Kelsey Sutton has been hired by Adweek to cover technology.

She starts next week and will be based in New York.

Sutton had been at Mic for the past year, focusing broadly on the media and on media and politics. She’ll be the first writer at Mic dedicated to covering the media.

Before that, she was a reporter at Politico.

Sutton was originally hired at Political/Capital New York as Dow Jones business news fellowship intern. She then joined Capital New York full time to report on mergers and acquisitions and the business side of media. She also wrote for its morning newsletter, Politico Media Pro, for subscribers.

Sutton is a University of Maryland graduate.

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.