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ProPublica hires Asher-Schapiro

Avi Asher-Schapiro

Avi Asher-Schapiro, a tech correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation in Los Angeles, has been hired by ProPublica as a reporter in Washington.

He anchored the foundation’s global tech coverage, leading investigations on multiple continents into major platforms from Amazon to Facebook to Uber.

Before joining the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Asher-Schapiro was a tech correspondent for the Committee to Protect Journalists and a staff writer at International Business Times and Vive News. As a freelance journalist, he wrote for outlets including Harper’s magazine.

Asher-Schapiro graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and earned a master’s degree in journalism and Middle East studies from NYU. He is a former Fulbright research fellow in Cairo.

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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