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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.

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.