The Information hires Woo to cover VC and startups

Erin Woo

Tech news site The Information has hired Erin Woo as a reporter to cover startups and venture capital.

She will start in June.

Woo has been a technology reporting fellow at The New York Times for the past year. She previously interned at The Mercury News in San Jose and WNYC Radio in New York.

She is a graduate of Stanford University, where she was editor in chief of the student newspaper.

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.