CNET hires Fowler to cover cybersecurity

Bree Fowler

Tech news site CNET has hired Bree Fowler as a senior writer to cover cybersecurity.

For the past four and a half years, Fowler has been a technology reporter and writer specializing in digital security and privacy at Consumer Reports. She also covered smartphones, wearable technology, and other emerging tech.

Before joining Consumer Reports, she worked as a reporter for The Associated Press for 16 years, including serving as a national technology writer focused on cybersecurity.

In addition to writing for Consumer Reports, she frequently appears on our TV show, “Consumer 101,” as well as on national TV news shows and channels such as NBC’s “Today,” CNBC, WGN, NPR, and ABC Radio.

She holds degrees in journalism and political science from Michigan State University.

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.