The Messenger hires Idris to cover science and tech

Abubaker Idris

News startup The Messenger has hired Abubakar Idris as a science and technology reporter.

He most recently has been in the Knight-Bagehot program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Idris previously was an Africa reporter for Rest of World and a contributor to Quartz. He also worked for Big Cabal Media and Stears Insight.

He is a graduate of Kogi State University.

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.