Cybersecurity reporter Faife is leaving The Verge

Corin Faife

The Verge reporter Corin Faife, who covers privacy and cybersecurity, is leaving the news organization.

He has been there for a year.

Faife was a data reporter at The Markup. He has worked as a reporter covering technology news in London, Montreal and New York.

Before joining The Markup, he was a journalist and researcher at WITNESS, where he coordinated responses to deep fakes, synthetic media and disinformation in support of the needs of journalists and human rights defenders around the world.

His work has appeared in The Guardian, BuzzFeed, Vice, Gizmodo, CityLab, and Ars Technica. He has also provided citizen journalism training for marginalized groups in the U.K. and in multiple African countries.

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.