Categories: OLD Media Moves

The Daily hires Lowry as business editor

The Daily, the News Corp. daily newspaper available only on tablets, has hired longtime business journalist Tom Lowry to be its business editor.

Lowry resigned earlier today from Variety, where he worked in its New York office. He previously worked for BusinessWeek magazine.

Michael Calderone of The Huffington Post writes, “Daily editor-in-chief Jesse Angelo announced the hire Friday in a memo to staff obtained by The Huffington Post.

Folks, I’m happy to announce that Tom Lowry is joining The Daily as our Business Editor. Tom comes to us from Variety, where he was a senior editor, and BusinessWeek before that. He is an excellent journalist and a great guy and we’re thrilled to have him aboard. Please give him a warm welcome when he starts July 1.
Jesse

“There’s been much discussion in the media world about the half-dozen or so departures at the publication since News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch first showed it off to reporters this past February. The Huffington Post recently reported that art director Gabriel Dance was the latest to leave. So the Lowry hire is good news for the four-month-old start-up.”

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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.