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Wayt moves to the Musk beat at The Information

July 25, 2025

Posted by Chris Roush

Theo Wayt

The Information reporter Theo Wayt has shifted beats and is now covering Elon Musk and his companies, including Tesla and SpaceX.

He has been covering Amazon.

Before joining The Informtion in 2022, Way was a reporter at The New York Post covering technology news. Wayt previously was a senior reporter for business and economics and social sciences for The Academic Times, a higher education news startup.

He used to cover banks, investment funds and insurance companies for a financial newswire called Fastinform. He has also reported for the Associated Press, NBC News, Vice, Gothamist and Business Insider, covering topics like New York City politics, artificial intelligence, fracking and U.S.-China relations.

He graduated from New York University in 2020 with degrees in journalism and music.

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