The Information hires LeVine for subscription newsletter The Electric

Steve LeVine

Steve LeVine has left Medium to start a new, stand-alone premium subscription pub at The Information called The Electric.

It will focus on batteries and electronic vehicles.

He had been at Medium for the last two years as an editor at large.

At Medium, LeVine wrote across three magazines covering the intersection of technology, economics, and demographics with society, politics, and geopolitics. Before that, he was Future editor at Axios.

LeVine served as the Washington correspondent for Quartz, was a contributing editor to Foreign Policy Magazine, and a foreign affairs writer at Business Week. He’s also written for The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal.

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.