BuzzFeed senior tech reporter Bernstein taking buyout

Joseph Bernstein

Joseph Bernstein, a senior technology reporter at BuzzFeed News, is taking a buyout and leaving the news organization.

Bernstein is based in New York and has been with BuzzFeed since February 2013.

“I’m supremely grateful to have been part of such a unique and talented newsroom, one which always supported my work,” he wrote on Twitter. “I’ll have more about what’s next for me soon.”

Bernstein was a Nieman fellow for the 2020-21 academic year, studying the ways recent technological change has contributed to alienation in 21st century American life.

He previously was editor of Kill Screen Media and a reporter for two years for Popular Science magazine.

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.