Vox Media hires general manager for tech sites Verge and Recode

Steve Belser

Steven Belser has been hired as the general manager of Vox Media tech news sites The Verge and Recode.

He sill start on May 7.

Belser will report to Andrew Golis, vice president of network development at Vox Media, and will work closely with leadership teams from both sites to set overall revenue strategy, build core ad businesses, and identify new partnership and business opportunities.

He joins Recode and The Verge from Bloomberg, where he helped create TicToc, the live streaming news service in partnership with Twitter.

Before that, he helped launch NowThis News, served as head of production at Vice where he launched its flagship YouTube channels, and worked in production management at MTV.

Belser is a graduate of the University of Arizona.

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.