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NYT to expand its tech blog

The New York Times is expanding its tech blogging, writes Jennifer Saba of Reuters.

Saba writes, “The expanded coverage will encompass a broader range of  subjects like ‘big data,’ ‘cloud computing’ and security issues.

“‘It’s an area the Times has never had a lot of reporting,’ said Damon Darlin, technology editor who oversees the site.

“The Times recently hired three new reporters to its tech desk – Quentin Hardy, Nicole Perlroth and Brian X. Chen – to help beef up its coverage and contribute to the blog along with other Times tech reporters. The expansion also includes a new section called ‘Scuttlebot’ that will aggregate tech stories of interest from across the Web.

“Traditionally the Times’ tech coverage has had a more consumer-centric bent. But with hacking in the headlines and the term cloud computing popping up in TV commercials,  for example, these issues are becoming more mainstream.  ‘Whether they know it or not, it effects (consumers),’ Darlin said.”

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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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