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MIT Tech Review hires Basu as senior writer

Tanya Basu

MIT Technology Review has hired Tanya Basu as a senior reporter covering humans and technology.

“I’ll be reporting on how humans affect tech — and how tech affects humans,” wrote Basu on Twitter. “It’s a whole new, crazy world of stories and I’m excited to explore it.”

Basu is currently the senior editor for science at The Daily Beast, where she has worked since October 2017. She previously worked as the science editor at Inverse.com.

She has also worked for The Atlantic and Time magazine.

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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