Axios adds tech editor, cybersecurity reporter

Scott Rosenberg

Axios has hired Scott Rosenberg as its tech editor and Joe Uchill as its cybersecurity reporter.

Uchill will write a new email newsletter on cybersecurity, called Axios Codebook, starting March 27.

Rosenberg, who starts next Monday, has been a contributor to Backchannel, Steven Levy’s technology-focused publication (formerly owned by Medium, now part of Conde Nast). He has also written a daily email newsletter for John Battelle’s NewCo.

From 2011 to 2014, he worked as the executive editor of Grist, a non-profit green news site.

Before that he founded MediaBugs.org, a project funded by the Knight News Challenge that built a “bug-tracker for news” — a service people can use to report errors in news coverage in their communities and try to get them corrected.

Ronsenberg co-founded Salon back in 1995 and spent a decade there, serving as its first technology editor then became managing editor.

Uchill had been a reporter for The Hill and had covered cybersecurity for the Christian Science Monitor.

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.