SF Standard tech reporter Anand departs

Priya Anand

Priya Anand, a tech culture reporter at the San Francisco Standard, has left the publication to start a communications consulting business.

She previously was at Bloomberg News covering startups and venture capital. Before joining Bloomberg, Anand served as a reporter at The Information covering Amazon and e-commerce.

She also worked at BuzzFeed as a transportation reporter. Prior to joining BuzzFeed, Anand was covering cybersecurity for MarketWatch.

In addition, she has served as an intern at Politico and held the posts of metro news editor and editor-in-chief at The GW Hatchet. Apart from Politico, Anand has also interned at the Houston Chronicle, New York Daily News and Street Sense.

Anand graduated from the George Washington 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.