Khari Johnson has been hired by CalMatters to be its first technology reporter.
He will start later this month.
He most recently has been at Wired magazine covering artificial intelligence.
Johnson previously was a senior staff writer at VentureBeat, where he has covered artificial intelligence as well as the intersection of ethics and policy as well as advances in natural language processing, computer vision, and deep learning.
He previously was a reporter at NewCo, where he focused on stories like smart cities, economic ecosystems, how Millennials are changing the workplace, and the stories of companies driven by purpose and profit.
He also was a local editor at Patch. Johnson is a graduate of San Francisco State University.
