OLD Media Moves

Guardian reporter Wong leaves tech beat

Julia Carrie Wong

Julia Carrie Wong, a senior tech reporter for The Guardian in Silicon Valley, is switching to covering other topics for the newspaper.

“I am very excited to start covering *other things* and grateful to the Guardian for letting me make this transition,” she wrote on Twitter.

She joined the paper in 2015 from SF Weekly, where she was a news and politics staff writer.

She previously worked as a freelance reporter, contributing articles on San Francisco Bay Area politics and the tech industry for Salon, In These Times, the New Yorker, USA Today and Vice.

Wong holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and an MFA in writing from the University of Iowa.

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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