Tech news site CNET has hired Queenie Wong as a reporter.
She starts in October.
Wong had been a tech reporter at the San Jose Mercury News from January 2015 to February 2018, covering social media companies, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest in Silicon Valley.
She previously worked for more than three years at the Salem Statesman Journal in Oregon, half of the time as an education reporter, specializing in policy reform and issues facing the second-largest school district in Oregon. She also covered politics and state government at the paper.
Wong is a graduate of Washington & Lee University. She interned at US News & World Report and the Sacramento Bee.