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NY Times hires WSJ’s Volz

Dustin Volz

Wall Street Journal reporter Dustin Volz has been hired by The New York Times to cover cybersecurity and intelligence.

He will start next month.

Before joining The Journal, Volz had been with Reuters covering corporate espionage, federal government hacks, surveillance and digital privacy, terror networks and recruiting and online consumer scams.

He worked two years for the National Journal as a tech policy correspondent, covering news such as the two-year push in Congress for NSA surveillance reform, the massive hack of personnel files at the Office of Personnel Management, patent reform efforts in Congress, net neutrality, the sharing economy, and the Senate torture report, among other topics.

He was previously a Fulbright teaching assistant in Indonesia and an intern at The Arizona Republic.

A German speaker, he has degrees from Arizona State 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.

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