Protocol hires Bloomberg’s Brody to cover tech policy

Ben Brody

Tech news site Protocol has hired Bloomberg News reporter Ben Brody to cover tech policy.

He starts on Monday.

Brody has been at Bloomberg since January 2015, first as an intern and then as a breaking news reporter in Washington. He has been covering tech policy, including antitrust and Section 230, since 2017.

He previously was an associate editor at Westchester Magazine.

Brody holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a master’s in journalism from CUNY.

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.