Categories: OLD Media Moves

VentureBeat reporter to join Adweek

Anthony Ha, a VentureBeat reporter who was one of its first hires, has been hired by Adweek to become its West Coast bureau.

Ha is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising and social networks.

Before joining the site in 2008, Ha worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco.

Owen Thomas, the executive editor of VentureBeat, left the site in March to join a start-up site. Marie Baca was promoted to managing editor shortly after he left.

VentureBeat, which was started by former San Jose Mercury News reporter Matt Marshall in 2006, covers Silicon Valley and other business-related topics.

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.