Newsweek hires tech reporter

Newsweek announced Thursday that it has hired Seung Y. Lee to work as a consumer tech reporter for the weekly magazine.

Lee will be based in San Francisco.

He has previously worked at the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Magazine. He has also written for Vice Magazine and Popular Science. Born in Seoul, South Korea, he speaks fluent Korean. But Lee considers himself a lifelong Californian, having grown up in inner-city Los Angeles and graduated from Cal-Berkeley with a degree in political economy.

Lee was accepted as one of eight journalists in Asian-American Writing Workshop’s inaugural Dat Winning Sports Journalism Fellowship. At Berkeley, he was the sports editor and the online managing editor of the Daily Californian.