WSJ media editor Peers moves to The Information

Wall Street Journal media editor Martin Peers is going over to be a columnist at The Information, reports Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke of The New York Ovbserver.

Bloomgarden-Smoke writes, “Mr. Peers, who has been at the Journal since 1999, has been the media and marketing bureau chief since 2011.

“Ms. Lessin announced the hire in an email and blog post Sunday night, shortly after the news broke as part of an unrelated New York Times story that Fusion, the millennial-focused cable news network, is expected to name Vice‘s Tim Pool its director of media innovation.

“‘On a personal note, I met Martin when I worked for him as a tech and media reporter. He was the toughest editor I’d had and taught me an incredible number of things, from how to break news to how to convince John Malone to talk to me,’ Ms. Lessin wrote. ‘Since then I have read every single thing he’s written, and I can’t wait for Information subscribers to regularly read his fresh, rigorous analysis when he joins in two weeks.’

“Ms. Lessin also announced that her site has hired Stephen Nellis, a senior editor at the Pacific Coast Business Times, as a reporter.”

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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.