Wired hires Oberhaus as a staff writer

Daniel Oberhaus

Daniel Oberhaus, a news editor at Motherboard, has been hired as a staff writer at Wired magazine.

He starts on Monday. He had also worked at Motherboard as a staff writer for a year.

Oberhaus will cover new space, machine learning, the future of energy and open source development.

He is the author of “Extraterrestrial Languages” (MIT Press, October 2019) and contributed to “Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networks: Interplanetary and Earth-Bound” (CRC Press, 2018).

His work has also appeared in The Atlantic, Popular Mechanics, Slate, The Baffler, Nautilus, Vice, The Awl, The Outline and Supercluster.

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.