FT tech correspondent Murgia to join Washington Post

Madhumita Murgia

Madhumita Murgia has been selected to join the national staff of The Washington Post this summer as a Stern Fellow.

She currently leads coverage of the biggest technology trends and innovations in Europe as a correspondent for the Financial Times.

Murgia was selected from a competitive pool of candidates and made an impression for her immersive studies and work in the fields of science and technology. She graduated from the University of Oxford with a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences and a master’s in integrated immunology.

She also holds a master’s in journalism from the New York University, where she ran the student-run magazines Scienceline.org. Since then, Murgia has worked as an associate editor at Wired magazine and has headed technology coverage for the Telegraph.

The Stern Fellowship honors legendary Post editor Laurence Stern by bringing a British journalist of exceptional promise to the newsroom each summer. Some of Britain’s leading journalists have won the fellowship.

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.