CNN hires Washington Post’s Fung to cover business, tech

Brian Fung

CNN has hired Washington Post tech reporter Brian Fung to cover tech, business and policy.

He will start in May. His work will appear on both CNN Business and CNN Politics, and he will also be appearing on television.

Fung has covered business and technology for The Post since 2013. Before joining The Post, he was the technology correspondent for National Journal and an associate editor at The Atlantic. He speaks two dialects of Chinese and is a native of the nation’s capital.

He is a graduate of Middlebury College and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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.