Tim Starks, who has been the author of the Cybersecurity 202 newsletter, is among those who have taken the buyout offer from The Washington Post.
He has been at the Post since July 2022.
Before that, Starks covered cybersecurity for CyberScoop as a senior editor and starting writing about the topic for CQ Roll Call in 2003. He also wrote Politico’s Morning Cybersecurity newsletter from 2015 to 2020. His work has appeared in the Economist, Foreign Policy and the New Republic. He wrote or contributed to cybersecuritystories that won three awards this year from the American Society of Business Publication Editors.
Starks graduated from the University of Southern Indiana and wrote for his hometown Evansville Press as his first full-time journalism job. He later served as statehouse bureau chief for the merged Evansville Courier & Press before establishing the Washington bureau of the New York Sun.