The Markup labor reporter Kerr departing for new opportunity

Dara Kerr

The Markup labor reporter Dara Kerr is leaving the technology news organization for a new opportunity. She had been covering Silicon Valley employees, gig and warehouse workers, and the ways labor is changing.

She joined The Markup from CNET, where she was a senior reporter, covering the on-demand economy and tech culture.

She previously was a freelance reporter who wrote stories on everything from El Salvador’s civil war to an Oakland shepherd who uses goats to prevent wildfires.

Kerr holds degrees from New York University, Columbia University and Cal-Barkeley.

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.