Wired hires D’Anastasio to cover gaming industry

Cecilia D'Anastasio

Cecilia D’Anastasio

Wired magazine has hired Cecilia D’Anastasio to cover the gaming industry.

D’Anastasio has been at Kotaku since June 2016, most recently as a senior reporter on special projects. She reports investigative features alongside Gizmodo Media’s Special Projects Desk, the company’s investigative unit, with her articles centering on games, virtual worlds, esports and digital labor.

Before that, she was a fact checker and contributor for Vice magazine, Vice.com and Vice’s HBO documentaries.

D’Anastasio is a graduate of Reed College.

The Kotaku staff conducted an online goodbye roast of D’Anastasio on Thursday.

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.