The Verge hires Cranz as managing editor

Alex Cranz

The Verge has hired technology journalist Alex Cranz as its managing editor.

She will start later this month. The Verge, which is part of Vox Media, examines how technology will change life in the future for a massive mainstream audience.

She had been senior consumer tech editor at Gizmodo. She had been with Gizmodo since January 2016.

Cranz previously was associate reviews editor for Tom’s Guide and Laptop Magazine.

She is a graduate of the University of the South.

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.