The Information hires Cheddar’s Heath

The Information editor in chief Jessica Lessin sent out the following announcement on Monday:

Dear Team,
We are thrilled to announce that Alex Heath will be joining us later this month to cover Facebook and Alphabet, turbocharging our coverage of these important companies at a critical time
At Cheddar, Alex has consistently broken big industry news—from Facebook launching a crypto currency to the ATT/ AppNexus deal—and shed light on internal discussions that have painted companies like Snap and Facebook in new light. We have long been impressed with his ability to back his reporting with primary documents and to source deeply inside some of the most tight-lipped companies.
SABEW recently honored him with an award for best young business journalist under (gulp) the age of 30.
Alex will be covering Facebook and Alphabet out of our growing New York office, working closely with our teams in SF and DC. He will be reporting to Nick.
Please join me in welcoming Alex!!

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.