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Tech journalist creates site to help reporters working on tech stories

A technology journalist has created a website that helps other reporters get answers to questions about technology.

Tech4Reporters was created by John Biggs, who writes for TechCrunch, so that reporters can ask questions about the latest tech news and where technologists – programmers, engineers, designers, and thinkers – can answer in an anonymous or open forum. It is currently free.

“Almost all business journalism is tech journalism now and it’s of vital importance that journalists can get clear answers about the difficult stuff they’re covering,” said Biggs. “Crypto, 3D printing, and cybersecurity are important and hard to grasp. I made a site that tries to help.”

The site currently has more than 270 journalists and nearly 1,000 tech experts signed up. Eighty questions have been published.

Biggs is a writer, consultant, programmer, former East Coast editor and current contributing writer for TechCrunch. He writes mainly about technology, cryptocurrency, security, gadgets, gear, wristwatches, and the internet.

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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  • Questions like, "How can I score the best junkets and then brag about them?" Or, "How can I write 1,000 words enthusing over some insanely expensive gadget that few people want and nobody needs?" Or, "How can I jump back and forth between working for technology companies and faux-covering those same companies as a journalist?" Or, "How can I swallow Silicon Valley's bullshit whole, no matter how much bullshit it produces?"

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