Quartz hires Truong as West Coast tech reporter

Alice Truong, Fast Company’s West Coast correspondent, has been hired by the business news site Quartz.

She will start her new job — Quartz’s first San Francisco-based tech reporter — in December and report to tech editor Dan Frommer. Truong had been with Fast Company since July 2013.

She previously was a special contributor for USA Today, writing a tech column and hosting an online gadgets show.

Prior to moving to San Francisco, Truong reported in Chicago, Washington D.C., New York City and Hong Kong where she worked as a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal. She has written about a number of subjects, including technology, real estate, politics and personal finance.

Truong graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with two degrees: a master’s in business reporting and interactive storytelling, and a bachelor’s in print/online reporting and political science.

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.