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BBC hires U.S. tech reporter for Silicon Valley

The BBC has appointed its first permanent San Francisco technology reporter to cover the “second renaissance” of creativity and business in Silicon Valley, according to a story by Jemima Kiss in The Guardian.

Kiss wrote, “Maggie Shiels has already covered Silicon Valley for the BBC on a freelance basis, as well as undertaking science and business reporting for TV and radio.

“Shiels will be reporting mainly for the BBC News website but will also file multimedia reports for the corporation’s TV and radio outlets.

“Darren Waters, technology editor for the BBC News site, said the corporation needed a reporter on the ground in San Francisco to stay on top of the highly competitive technology news industry.”

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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.