Farivar hired by NBC News as investigative tech reporter

Cyrus Farivar

Cyrus Farivar has been hired by NBC News as an investigative tech reporter.

Farivar is currently a senior tech policy reporter at Ars Technica, and is also an author and radio producer.

His second book, “Habeas Data,” about the legal cases over the last 50 years that have had an outsized impact on surveillance and privacy law in America, is out now from Melville House. His first book, “The Internet of Elsewhere” — about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea — was published in April 2011.

He previously was the sci-tech editor, and host of “Spectrum” at Deutsche Welle English, Germany’s international broadcaster.

He has also reported for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, The Economist, Wired, The New York Times and many others.

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.