BuzzFeed tech reporter Bernstein named Nieman fellow

Joseph Bernstein

Joseph Bernstein, a senior technology reporter at BuzzFeed News, has been named a Nieman fellow for the 2020-21 academic year.

Bernstein plans to study the ways recent technological change has contributed to alienation in 21st century American life.

Bernstein is based in New York and has been with BuzzFeed since February 2013.

He previously was editor of Kill Screen Media and a reporter for two years for Popular Science magazine.

Nieman, a center for internationally recognized journalism fellowships, publications and programs, has selected 16 Nieman fellows for its 83rd class. All of the fellows can be found here.

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.