Boston Globe hires Verma to cover tech

Pranshu Verma

The Boston Globe has hired Pranshu Verma to be a technology reporter.

He will start in June.

Verma has been a reporter and David Rosenbaum fellow in the Washington, D.C. bureau of The New York Times for the past year. He helps cover the State Department, Transportation Department and economic sanctions.

He previously was a fellow at the Philadelphia Inquirer covering New Jersey politics.

Verma holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Delaware and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of 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.