Tech editor Murphy is leaving Lifehacker

David Murphy

David Murphy, the senior tech editor at Lifehacker, is leaving the website.

Murphy has been at Lifehacker since March 2018.

“It’s bittersweet, since service journalism has been what I love doing most in the ‘cough’ years I’ve been in this industry,” he wrote on Twitter.

Murphy managed and cultivated a team of freelancers, publishing news-based and evergreen tech stories to establish Lifehacker’s top-performing vertical at 115 million total pageviews.. The tech page published more than 80 articles each month.

He previously was head of editorial at Packagd and a staff writer at The Wirecutter.

Murphy holds two degrees from Northwestern.

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.