FT hires Lee to cover tech in Silicon Valley

David Lee

The Financial Times has hired BBC reporter David Lee to cover technology news in Silicon Valley.

He will start his new job in January.

Lee has been with BBC for more than a decade, and he’s been in San Francisco since 2015 overseeing the BBC’s coverage of North America technology.

He also worked as a breaking news reporter and a sports reporter for BBC.

Lee also worked at the Evening Standard and Press Gazette in London. He’s a graduate of the University of London.

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.