News & Observer hires Gordon to cover tech

Brian Gordon

The (Raleigh) News & Observer has hired Brian Gordon to cover technology news.

Gordon has been a senior North Carolina statewide reporter for The Asheville Citizen-Times and the USA Today Network. He previously covered education and social issues for the Asheville newspaper.

He previously was a freelancer with articles published in Vice, Gothamist, South China Morning Post, VeloNews, Toronto Star, ESPN’s The Undefeated, The Buffalo News, Democrat & Chronicle, Jackson Free Press, Rochester City Newspaper, BloodHorse and Deep South Magazine.

Gordon holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree from Columbia University.

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.