Germain departing Gizmodo for BBC News

Thomas Germain

Gizmodo senior reporter Thomas Germain is leaving the technology news site to become a tech reporter for BBC News.

He has been covering privacy, advertising technology and algorithms for Gizmodo.

Germain had previously been at Consumer Reports and had been covering privacy, digital rights and life on the internet. He interned at Consumer Reports while in college.

Germain is a graduate of Columbia University in American studies. While there, he was editor in chief of The Federalist, a satirical newspaper.

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.