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Marks, Washington Post cybersecurity newsletter writer, is departing

June 8, 2022

Posted by Chris Roush

Joseph Marks

Joseph Marks, the anchor of The Cybersecurity 202 newsletter at The Washington Post, is leaving the organization.

He has been at the Post since December 2018.

Marks previously was at NextGov, where he wass a senior cybersecurty reporter focused on issues including privacy, government cyber authorities, Russian hacking battles and encryption.

Previously, he was a cybersecurity reporter for Politico, where he regularly authored that publication’s Morning Cybersecurity newsletter. He also has covered patent and copyright trends for Bloomberg BNA and federal litigation for Law360. A

Marks spent two years at the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota, where he exhaustively covered the University of North Dakota’s lawsuit against the NCAA to retain its Native American team nickname.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s in international affairs from Georgetown University.

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