CNET hires Ng as a reporter in New York

Alfred Ng

Alfred Ng has joined tech news site CNET News as a general assignment reporter based in New York.

He previously worked as the associate engagement editor at the New York Daily News, where he juggled running the paper’s social accounts with breaking local news stories.

Ng is a 2015 graduate of Syracuse University, where he worked on the student newspaper, The Daily Orange. He interned at the Brooklyn Paper and at the Daily News while in college.

When not reporting and writing, he can be found fantasizing about becoming a famous breakdancer.

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.