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The Verge is now livestreaming “Circuit Breaker” on Twitter

Tech news site The Verge is now livestreaming its gadget show “Circuit Breaker” on Twitter, writes David Cohen of Adweek.

Cohen writes, “The publisher announced Tuesday that Circuit Breaker, The Verge’s gadget blog, and The Polygon Show, Polygon’s flagship podcast, will debut on Twitter this fall.

“The livestreams will be available globally via circuitbreaker.twitter.com and @CircuitBreaker and @Polygon, respectively.

“Circuit Breaker debuts Oct. 3 and will livestream every Tuesday at 4 p.m. ET. The Verge editor in chief Nilay Patel and the Circuit Breaker team of Paul Miller, Jake Kastrenakes, Ashley Carman and Chaim Gartenberg ‘will review and experiment with the hottest gadgets everyone wants right now and the weirdest ones we’ll want tomorrow,’ Vox Media said in a release announcing the two shows.”

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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.