Byford departs Reuters to start tech newsletter

Sam Byford has left Reuters and is starting a technology newsletter on Substack called “Multicore.”

There will be paid newsletters on Tuesdays and Thursdays and free articles during the week.

“It’ll draw on my years of experience covering Chinese tech and companies like Sony, Samsung, and Nintendo,” he wrote on Twitter. “Absolutely no crypto or gig economy or Elon drama.”

He has been covering markets out of the Tokyo bureau for Reuters.

Byford had been at The Verge for the 10 years, lastly as a senior editor. He was also its Asia editor and a news editor.

He is a graduate of the University of Manchester.

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.