News startup Semafor hires Albergotti to oversee tech coverage

Reed Albergotti

Washington Post tech reporter Reed Albergotti has been hired by news startup Semafor to oversee its technology coverage.

He has been The Post’s consumer electronics reporter, covering Apple and other hardware manufacturers,

Albergotti previously spent years at The Information, where he wrote deeply reported stories on technology companies big and small, from the secretive and well-funded startup Magic Leap to “smart home” device maker Nest. Before joining The Information, he spent 12 years at The Wall Street Journal, covering beats that ranged from sports to white-collar crime.

In 2010, he uncovered emails that detailed doping on Lance Armstrong’s cycling team. His subsequent coverage in The Journal led to a bestselling book, “Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, The Tour de France and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever,” which he co-authored with Vanessa O’Connell.

Reed, a Minnesota native who grew up in Southern California, played ice hockey for San Diego State University while earning a degree in journalism.

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.