Starks rejoins CyberScoop News as senior reporter

Tim Starks

CyberScoop News has hired Tim Starks as a senior reporter.

Starks, who had been the author of the Cybersecurity 202 newsletter at The Washington Post, took the buyout offer from the publication at the end of last year.

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 cybersecurity stories 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.

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.