Categories: OLD Media Moves

SF Chronicle hires Sposito as cybersecurity reporter

Sean Sposito of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has been hired by the San Francisco Chronicle as its cybersecurity reporter.

He will start next month. Sposito has been with the Atlanta daily since late 2013. He previously worked at American Banker.

Sposito had been working at the Atlanta paper with a cross set of different beat reporters on stories based on public records information.
Sposito’s specialty is mining banking data to develop stories, often on payment cards and networks. Before joining American Banker in New York, Sposito was a year-long intern at The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, where he covered residential and commercial real estate and worked on computer-assisted reporting projects.

His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Record (Bergen County, N.J.), The Arkansas Democrat Gazette and the Columbia Daily Tribune (Missouri).

He is also a former data analyst at the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting.

Sposito is a University of Missouri graduate.

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.