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Time magazine names Vella biz editor

Matt Vella, a technology editor at Fortune magazine, will be joining Time magazine as the senior editor responsible for business coverage across all platforms, a spokeswoman confirmed to Talking Biz News.

Vella has been with Fortune since July 2011, editing its technology section and leading daily tech, innovation and autos coverage on Fortune.com.

Before Fortune, Vella was a news and finance editor for AOL.com and The Huffington Post. He also spent a year at Out magazine, where he led a redesign of its website.

Vella worked at BusinessWeek from 2007 to 2009 as a reporter in the innovation and design section, Before that, he worked briefly for The Wall Street Journal’s online operation and as a reporter writing features and spot news for BusinessWeek.com.

Vella graduated from Oberline College in 2003 with a degree in politics.

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.

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