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The Information hires WSJ’s Patel as a media reporter

Sahil Patel

The Information has hired Sahil Patel as a media reporter.

He has been at The Wall Street Journal for the past two years. He reports for CMO Today, with a focus on the ways that tech platforms, digital video and ad tech are changing the business of marketing.

Patel was previously a media editor for Digiday. He also served as a senior reporter and a video reporter at Digiday.

Prior to Digiday, Patel was the editorial director for VideoInk, an online news publication that focuses on business news about the fast-growing digital video industry.

He also worked for Cynopsis Media as a digital associate editor and reporter, covering digital video, advertising, and technology.

He graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in film studies.

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.

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