Wired hires Martineau as a staff writer

Paris Martineau

Paris Martineau has been hired to join Wired’s business desk as a staff writer.

Her first day in the New York office will be Oct. 8.

Martineau previously worked at The Outline as a staff writer, covering tech news, social media manipulation, and privacy. Before that she wrote for select all — New York magazine’s tech blog — about internet culture, dank memes, and life online.

She is a New York University graduate in comparative literature.

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.