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How the Washington Post is expanding its tech coverage

Chris Griffith of The Australian writes about why the Washington Post is expanding its tech news coverage.

Griffith writes, “Cho said the idea of expanding the Post’s tech coverage ‘was so obvious that it had occurred to multiple people at the same time.’

“There were three parts to the expansion. ‘One is to really cover the biggest companies and the most influential and biggest debates that are going on about privacy and free speech. These companies are gigantic: Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google, on and on. Uber is going to have one of the biggest IPOs in US history pretty soon.’ Responsibilities within that will be divided up.

“‘We’ll have someone tackling consumer electronics and Apple and Samsung … and someone tackling artificial intelligence, and Google and Microsoft and Amazon.’ Another reporter would cover future transportation, and another the Seattle tech quarter, which includes Microsoft, Amazon, Google, which has a presence there, and cloud computing.

“The second part involved the impact of technology in society. ‘Those are roles such as tech culture and tech in our lives. We want to produce idea-driven consumer technology stories.’ Cho said old-style reviews of gadgets centered around features and specs were ‘boring.”

Read more here. The third part is video.

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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