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The Verge hires Nguyen as features editor

Kevin Nguyen

The Verge has hired Kevin Nguyen as its features editor.

He starts on Monday and will report to editor in chief Nilay Patel.

“The Verge has always invested in deeply-reported longform stories about the impact technology has on culture,” said Patel. “Kevin’s critical eye and sharp sense of story will make our features program even stronger.”

Nguyen joins The Verge from GQ where he most recently served as senior editor. Prior to GQ, he was the editorial director at Google Play Books and Oyster.

His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Grantland, The Awl, The Paris Review, The New Republic, and elsewhere. Brooklyn Magazine named Nguyen one of the 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture in 2016, and to their 30 Under 30 list in 2015.

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.