Christina Passariello, deputy business editor for technology and personal finance at The Washington Post, is leaving the news organization after six years.
Passariello previously was The Wall Street Journal’s deputy technology editor
She worked for the Journal for nearly 14 years. She helped oversee some of the biggest technology stories of the year, including Russia’s alleged use of U.S. social media platforms before and after the 2016 election, Amazon’s aggressive expansion into new arenas and Google’s high-profile lawsuit against Uber for the alleged theft of trade secrets.
She also served as a foreign correspondent in Paris and was part of the team that won the 2013 Sigma Delta Chi award for reporting on Bangladesh’s garment industry. She was a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford from 2014 to 2015.
In the early 1990s, Passariello performed as a dancer at the Super Bowl halftime show, which starred Michael Jackson, and at Whitney Houston’s halftime performance during the World Cup.