Categories: OLD Media Moves

Quartz hires Coren to cover tech

Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following announcement to the staff on Friday:

I’m happy to announce that Michael Coren is joining Quartz as a reporter covering technology from our San Francisco bureau, starting March 21.

He will focus on the people and business landscape of Silicon Valley companies large and small—including startups and venture capital—working alongside Alice Truong to expand our coverage of this important area.

Michael most recently was founder of a software startup called Publet, which he has left to return to his deep journalism roots. Michael earlier was managing editor of the Phnom Penh Post in Cambodia, CNN.com’s science producer, and a science, tech, and environment reporter at the Palm Beach Post and San Jose Mercury News. Michael also freelanced for dedicated stretches in Asia and San Francisco for Fast Company, Foreign Policy, the Economist, and other news organizations. And he has worked as a consultant to the World Bank and other organizations on the economics of forests and carbon markets.

Michael has a bachelor’s from Emory University in journalism and environmental science and a master’s in environmental economics from the Yale School of Forestry. He speaks Spanish. You can follow him @mj_coren

Please join me in welcoming Michael.

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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