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Protocol hires WSJ’s Geron to cover financial technology

Tomio Geron

Tech news site Protocol has hired Wall Street Journal reporter Tomio Geron to cover financial technology.

He has been writing about technology, venture capital and startups for WSJ Pro Venture Capital and The Wall Street Journal from the Journal’s San Francisco bureau.

Previously he worked at a startup company. Prior to that, he was a staff reporter at Forbes magazine, covering technology and venture capital, and also edited the Midas List of top technology investors.

Before that he was a reporter at Dow Jones, writing for VentureWire and contributing to WSJ.com. He received a William R. Clabby Dow Jones Newswires award.

He has also worked at newspapers covering crime, courts, health and other topics.

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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