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Baig, former USA Today tech columnist, starts blog

Ed Baig

Ed Baig, a longtime USA Today tech columnist before being laid off earlier this year, has started a blog where he reviews products.

His first post is on an outdoor television.

Baig was the long-time personal tech columnist at USA Today where he reviewed every important new tech product to emerge during the past two decades, from the original iPhone to the Amazon Kindle.

He also has weighed in on emerging tech trends and industry news, covering  the culture of tech, the impact of artificial intelligence on society, 5G, ambient computing, robotics, family tech, senior tech, privacy and security.

Prior to joining USA TODAY, Baig was on the editorial staffs of Business Week, US News & World Report and Fortune.  He has also most recently started contributing to AARP.

He has authored Macs For Dummies (Wiley), Palm Pre: The Missing Manual (OReilly Media) and co-authored iPhone For Dummies (Wiley) and iPad For Dummies (Wiley).

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.

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