NBC News hires Tenbarge to cover tech and culture

NBC News has hired Kat Tenbarge to cover tech and culture.

She will start in 2022.

She has been is a senior reporter on Insider’s digital culture desk. She serves as an influencer watchdog, technology reporter, and culture writer.

Tenbarge was recognized as a 2018 White House Correspondents’ Association Scholar. Her work has previously appeared in Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, Inverse, The Columbus Dispatch, and more.

She holds a B.S. in journalism and a B.A. in environmental studies from Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College.

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.