Duffy in tech reporting “that impacts consumers”

Clare Duffy

Meredith Klein of “Meredith & The Media” interviewed CNN Business reporter Clare Duffy about her career.

Here is an excerpt:

As a tech reporter for CNN, you cover social media, artificial intelligence, and the strategies of Big Tech companies — as well as how technology affects our daily lives. Can you give us some examples of the stories you’re writing?
I think about my beat as “tech that impacts consumers,” and that means a lot of different things as tech touches our lives in so many ways.
Some stories I’m writing include how AI is going to impact the job market. Of course, there are opportunities going forward in terms of making people more efficient—but AI is also poised to take jobs away from human workers.
I’m also focused on competition and state of play in the AI market—how the biggest players in tech and the startup world are grappling for leadership positions, the fight for talent, acquisition strategies, etc.
Also interesting to me is the cultural impact of AI and how it’s affecting relationships with people in our lives. For example, how people are using AI to level up their dating game is fascinating to me. Will it help make us more connected? Will we be better engaged, or will it pull us further apart? That is a big question for me right now.

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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.