Tech reporter Menn among the Washington Post layoffs

Joseph Menn

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.

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.