Austin daily hires Leonard as tech reporter

Karoline Leonard

Karoline Leonard has been hired by the Austin American-Statesman as a technology reporter.

Leonard graduated from The University of Oklahoma in May 2024, where she worked in student media as a reporter and news editor and later served as editor-in-chief of OU Daily.

She previously interned at the Tulsa World and BusinessDen via the Dow Jones News Fund business reporting program.

Leonard hopes that through her reporting she can hold those in power in the technology industry accountable while also making tech news accessible to all readers.

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.