Vanity Fair Hive hires Elder as executive editor

Miriam Elder

Miriam Elder has been hired as executive editor of Vanity Fair’s media, business and technology sub-section The Hive.

She will start next week.

“It’s an incredible team and an incredible moment to shape coverage of our brave new world,” she wrote on Twitter.

Elder is world editor and politics reporter for BuzzFeed News and was previously foreign and national security editor. She was formerly The Guardian‘s Moscow-based correspondent. Her writings have been published by the Financial Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Atlantic, The International Herald Tribune and The Moscow Times.

John Homans, the editor of The Hive, died in July at the age of 62.

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.