The Verge media reporter Alexander is departing

Julia Alexander

Julia Alexander, a media reporter at The Verge, is leaving the news organization.

Her last day is Friday.

“To work for the two publications I idolized in college — I remember refreshing the page when Polygon first launched — and work with the smartest people in this industry is something I never, ever dreamed could ever happen,” she wrote on Twitter.

She has been at The Verge since October 2018 and previously was an entertainment reporter at Polygon. She has also been national online editor for Sun Media in Toronto and a freelancer writer for Motherboard.

Alexander graduated from Humber College with a degree in journalism.

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.