Tech reporter Kerr departs NPR

Dara Kerr

NPR tech reporter Dara Kerr has left the news organization for a new opportunity.

Kerr came to NPR from The Markup, where she covered labor at tech companies. She investigated the risks that Uber and Lyft drivers take — and the lack of protection the tech companies provide them. She also reported on big tech lobbying and the spread of anti-vaccine misinformation on Facebook.

Before The Markup, Kerr reported for CNET News. Her daily coverage ranged from Airbnb’s regulatory battles to self-driving cars to the proliferation of lab-grown meat. While at CNET, Kerr traveled the length of the Texas-Mexico border to report on how surveillance technology is used throughout the region.

She also went to Brazil to write about how one Amazonian tribe is using technology to fight deforestation.

Kerr is originally from Colorado and spent several years living in Latin America. She’s based in the Bay Area.

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.