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Politico publisher to launch tech news site

Robert Allbritton, the executive chairman of private equity firm Perpetual Capital and publisher of Politico, is preparing to launch a global technology news site, reports Dylan Byers of NBC News.

Byers reports, “The new site, which Allbritton informally refers to as “Techco,” will aim to cover the technology industry as aggressively as Politico covers politics.

“• It will be helmed by veteran journalist Tim Grieve, who has served as vice president of news at McClatchy, editor-in-chief and president of National Journal and managing editor of Politico.

“Grieve calls from Brussels:

“• ‘The site will cover the global fight for control of power in tech.’

“• ‘It’s about the tech companies changing the world, and the regulators that are trying to rein them in.’

“• ‘It’s not just focused on San Francisco or Washington — it’s various places in and out of the United States … China and the Chinese tech companies will be a big part of it.'”

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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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