Variety hires Adweek’s Zorrilla as a reporter

Monica Marie Zorrilla

Variety has hired Mónica Marie Zorrilla as a TV reporter.

A story on Variety’s website states, “Zorrilla most recently served as a breaking-news reporter at Adweek. At Variety, she will cover the television-programming business, including streaming services, studios, networks and development for all Variety platforms. She will be based in Los Angeles and report to Daniel Holloway, Variety‘s executive editor, TV.

“‘I’m excited to welcome Mónica to Variety,’ said Holloway. ‘She’s a great reporter with a canny understanding of the media landscape. I know she’ll be a fantastic addition to our industry-leading team.’

“Zorrilla joined Adweek in 2019, writing news stories about brand marketing and C-suite movements, and features about subjects such as the surprising demand for Home Depot’s 12-foot-tall decorative Halloween skeleton.”

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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.