Women’s Wear Daily hires Bloomgarden-Smoke to cover media

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke has been hired by Women’s Wear Daily to cover the media industry.

She will start Dec. 1.

Bloomgarden-Smoke covered the media industry as a reporter and senior editor at The New York Observer from 2012 until this summer and has written for various publications, including The Week, The Christian Science Monitor website, The New York Daily News’ politics blog, Newsday, New York Press, City and State, and the Gotham Gazette.

She is an alum of CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and has an undergraduate degree in literature and history from Bennington College.

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.