AP hires Parvini to cover artificial intelligence

Sarah Parvini

The Associated Press has hired Sarah Parvini to cover artificial intelligence.

She will start on Monday.

Parvini was covering the video game industry for the Los Angeles Times.

As a breaking news reporter at the Times, she chased natural disasters, covered mass shootings and reported on crime. Parvini was part of the team that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack, as well as a member of the investigative unit that uncovered scandals at USC’s medical school.

Parvini also graduated from USC with her master’s degree and received her bachelor’s from UC San Diego.

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.