CNN Business hires Metz to cover tech

Rachel Metz

Tech reporter Rachel Metz is joining the new CNN Business as a senior writer covering tech.

Metz will be based in San Francisco and will be covering artificial intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality. She starts Oct. 22.

She comes to CNN Business from MIT Technology Review, where she has been a senior editor for mobile covering the ways humans and machines are connected. Before that, she was at the Associated Press from March 2007 to January 2012, where she also covered tech. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times and Wired.

Metz is a graduate of University of California-Berkeley.

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.