OLD Media Moves

Ghaffary to cover social media policy and politics for Vox/Recode

Shirin Ghaffary

Shirin Ghaffary has been promoted to senior correspondent at Vox/Recode and will now cover social media policy and its intersection with politics.

She has been covering social media and big tech, and previously labor and tech.

Ghaffary has also co-hosted the Google season of the “Land of the Giants” narrative podcast series. Ghaffary also worked for BuzzFeed News and Elementum, an enterprise software startup, and interned for The Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch.

Originally from the San Francisco Bay area, Ghaffary was raised in Silicon Valley next door to Apple headquarters, and attended Cal-Berkeley where she was executive news editor of the Daily Californian, the university paper.

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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