Categories: OLD Media Moves

Thompson stepping back from biz editor role at TheAtlantic.com

Derek Thompson, a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the website, is stepping back from that position after more than two years.

“I’m staying at The Atlantic as a senior editor, but I’m stepping a half-step away from editing to focus more on writing, and so we’re hiring a business editor to take over those day-to-day managing and editing duties,” said Thompson in an email to Talking Biz News.

Thompson has written a business column for the magazine. He frequently appears on radio and television, including NPR and CNBC. He is also an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches a class on writing for the Internet. In 2012, he appeared in FOLIO: magazine’s 15 Under 30, Min’s People to Watch, and Reuters’ Counterparties’ blogs to follow.

Thompson had been mentioned as a successor to Ezra Klein at The Washington Post.

Thompson, who has also written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast, is a Northwestern graduate.

The business editor position can be found here.

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.