Vanity Fair’s Hive hires Homans as executive editor

John Homans has been hired by Vanity Fair as executive editor of The Hive, its business news site.

He will work with Hive co-founder and editor Jon Kelly, focusing in particular on the Hive’s investigative reach into Washington and the media.

His first day will be April 3. The Hive launched last summer and features high-profile writers including Nick Bilton, William Cohan and Sarah Ellison.

“We’re so thrilled to have an editor of John’s caliber and experience,” said Kelly in a statement. “He will make our coverage of this strange new world incomparably smarter, undeniably more elegant, and a whole lot juicier. We are uncontrollably excited.”

Homans comes to the Hive from Bloomberg Politics, which he helped launch with John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.

He previously served as executive editor of New York magazine for nearly 20 years.

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.