Washington Post technology reporter Joseph Menn is among the layoffs at the paper on Wednesday.
He has been cover hacking and other forms of digital disruption, including surveillance, privacy and disinformation.
Before that, he spent a decade at Reuters, where he pursued deep coverage of cybersecurity and mentored a team covering major hacks and cyberwar.
Before Reuters, Menn covered Silicon Valley at the Financial Times and tech, Disney and News Corp. at the Los Angeles Times. He began his career on the police, city hall and courts beats at theCharlotte Observer and then wrote on the tobacco industry and legal matters at Bloomberg News in its early days.
He has written several books, including “Fatal System Error,” which tied Russian intelligence agencies to organized hacking gangs, and “Cult of the Dead Cow,” which traced the development of hacktivism by telling the story of America’s most influential hacking group – including the revelation that then-presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke had been a member.
Menn majored in English at Harvard.
