CNN tech reporter Iyengar leaving for Foreign Policy

Rishi Iyengar

CNN tech reporter Rishi Iyengar is leaving the news outlet to join Foreign Policy as a staff reporter.

He has been in the San Francisco bureau since 2019. He previously was the India editor for CNN Business in New Delhi.

Before joining CNN, he spent two years at Time magazine in Hong Kong, where he covered several stories around Asia including the rise of the Afghanistan cricket team and the war on drugs in the Philippines.

Iyengar grew up in Pune, India, and is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School.

He will move to Foreign Policy’s Washington office by the end of the year and will cover the intersection of cybersecurity, technology and geopolitics.

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.