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The Information hires Wayt to cover Amazon

Theo Wayt

Tech news site The Information has hired Theo Wayt to cover Amazon.

He will start next week. He has been a reporter at The New York Post covering technology news.

Wayt previously was a senior reporter for business and economics and social sciences for The Academic Times, a higher education news startup.

He used to cover banks, investment funds and insurance companies for a financial newswire called Fastinform. He has also reported for the Associated Press, NBC News, Vice, Gothamist and Business Insider, covering topics like New York City politics, artificial intelligence, fracking and U.S.-China relations.

In addition to his reporting, Wayt has fact-checked for Public Books and commissioned essays for NBC News’ online opinion section.

He graduated from New York University in 2020 with degrees in journalism and music.

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.

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