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Drange departs The Information for new project

Matt Drange

The Information reporter Matt Drange is leaving the tech news site for a new position.

On Twitter, Drange wrote, “Grateful for the opportunity to be part of a special team, proving digital subscriptions have staying power with some of the most loyal subscribers around.”

Drange joined the investigative unit of The Information in March 2018. He recently won the Birger Award from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing as the best business journalist under the age of 30.

He previously the businesses of President Donald Trump for Forbes. Before that, Drange covered tech and money and power in Silicon Valley.

He previously covered  Silicon Valley for the Center for Investigative Reporting, a position he has held since September 2012. Before moving to the Bay Area, he covered politics for the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. Drange started his career at the Eureka Times-Standard.

Drange was a Loeb finalist in 2015 in the explanatory reporting category, and he won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Award for his coverage of Superfund sites in Silicon Valley.

Drange has degrees from Humboldt State University in California and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.

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