Wired.com’s Valdez hired as editor in chief of Texas Observer

Andrea Valdez, the editor of Wired.com, has been hired as editor in chief of the Texas Observer.

She has been at Wired.com since March 2017.

Valdez joined Wired from Texas Monthly. During her tenure as editor of texasmonthly.com, she oversaw a site traffic increase of 250 percent and a 500 percent increase in social media audience, as well as the launch of two verticals and a redesign of the website in 2013.

She is the author of “How to Be a Texan: The Manual.” Valdez received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.S. in journalism from Northwestern University.

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.