Mattu leaving The Markup for a new opportunity

Surya Mattu

Surya Mattu, an investigative data journalist at The Markup, is leaving the tech news organization for a new opportunity.

He has been a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow at the University of Michigan for most of the past year, researching how smartphone applications are used to track consumers.

Mattu has been with The Markup since September 2018 and previously was a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab/Center for Future Civic Media.

He also worked as a data reporter on the special projects desk at Gizmodo.

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.