Ovide, writer of NY Times’ “On Tech” newsletter, is leaving

Shira Ovide

Shira Ovide, who has been writing the “On Tech” newsletter for the New York Times since early 2020, is leaving the organization for a new opportunity.

She previously worked at Bloomberg Opinion, where she had been a tech columnist since 2015. There she wrote three to five data-driven columns a week.

Before Bloomberg, Ovide was at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal for more than a decade, both in New York and San Francisco. She covered media, was a deals columnist and reported on technology companies like Twitter.

Raised in Ohio, Ovide is a graduate of Haverford College and Columbia Journalism School.

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.