Consumer Reports hires Swearingen as a tech reporter

Jake Swearingen

Jake Swearingen has been hired by Consumer Reports as a technology reporter.

He will start on May 28.

Swearingen most recently was a tech reporter for New York magazine. He had been there from August 2016 until April 2019.

He previously worked at the website director for Popular Mechanics and as an associate editor at The Atlantic. He was also the web editor of LA Weekly and SF Weekly.

Swearingen also covered advertising for BNET.

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.