Washington Post tech reporter Siddiqui to cover DOGE

Faiz Siddiqui

Washington Post reporter Faiz Siddiqui is now covering the Department of Government Efficiency overseen by billionaire Elon Musk.

For the past year, he has been on the business investigations team, exploring the vast empire of Elon Musk.

Siddiqui was previously on The Post’s technology team. As a reporter covering the gig economy and autonomous driving in San Francisco, Faiz wrote extensively about Uber, revealing how steep fares induced by pandemic-era driver shortages were not benefiting workers and how the company’s IPO celebrations got out of hand.

Before joining the tech team, Siddiqui covered transportation for the Local desk for four years. He started at The Post as an intern in the class of 2015.

His book “Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk,” will be published next month and is a look at Musk through the lens of his management and business practices.

Siddiqui is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in journalism.

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.