The Information hires Victor to cover Alphabet

Jon Victor

Tech news site The Information has hired Jon Victor to cover Alphabet, the parent company of Google.

He will be based in San Francisco and start in October.

Victor currently covers fintech, banking and payments, including public companies like Lightspeed and Nuvei, for The Logic. His beat encompasses how Canada’s financial institutions are innovating, the emergence of new players in the space and the shaping of the rules that govern the country’s financial sector.

He was previously a business reporter for The Canadian Press, and before that covered cryptocurrency for The Information.

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.