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BuzzFeed hires Alba as senior tech reporter

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Wired magazine staffer Davey Alba has been hired by BuzzFeed as a senior tech reporter, reports Kelsey Sutton of Mic.

Sutton writes, “On BuzzFeed News’ tech news team, reporter Davey Alba is joining as a senior tech reporter. Alba, who was previously a reporter at the tech magazine Wired, will cover artificial intelligence, focusing particularly on how it intersects with privacy and surveillance, San Francisco bureau chief Mat Honan said in a note to staff.

“While at Wired, Alba extensively covered Facebook, Google and other major tech companies. Earlier this year, she wrote about the network of temporary Google employees tasked with reviewing YouTube footage to keep ads off of hateful or graphic videos.”

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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.

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