CalMatters hires Johnson as its first tech reporter

Khari Johnson

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.

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.