Germain of Consumer Reports leaves for Gizmodo

Thomas Germain

Consumer Reports senior technology reporter Thomas Germain has left the news organization and will join Gizmodo on Monday.

Germain will cover privacy, advertising technology and algorithms.

He had been at Consumer Reports since June 2018 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.