The Verge hires Feiner as senior policy reporter

Lauren Feiner

The Verge has hired Lauren Feiner as a senior reporter covering tech policy.

She most recently was covering tech policy for CNBC.com. She’d been with CNBC since 2018 beginning as a tech general assignments reporter and is currently based out of Washington, D.C.

Feiner has appeared as a guest on MSNBC, NBC News NOW, NBC LX and SiriusXM Radio and has experience moderating at the State of the Net conference. She also participated in the National Press Foundation’s fellowship, “Your Body, Their Data? Reporting on Privacy, Tech and Biometrics.”

She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in communication.

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.