Talent agency signs Recode co-founder Swisher

Kara Swisher

United Talent Agency has signed author, journalist and Recode co-founder Kara Swisher, reports Matt Donnelly of Variety.

Donnelly reports, “The agency will work with Swisher to generate opportunities across digital, publishing, news and broadcast, speaking engagements, film and television, and other business areas, a UTA spokesperson said.

“Swisher currently serves as editor-at-large at Recode, the leading tech outfit she launched with Walt Mossberg in 2014.

“Since inception, the publication has expanded to include a slate of popular podcasts and highly trafficked conferences and live events. Swisher serves as the host and producer of the chart-topping podcasts ‘Recode Decode’ and ‘Pivot,’ and co-produces the Code conferences series where she has made headlines interviewing tech heavyweights including the late Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk.”

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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.