Tech reporter leaves BuzzFeed

Brendan Klinkenberg

Brendan Klinkenberg, a tech reporter for BuzzFeed, has left the news organization, multiple sources have confirmed to Talking Biz News.

Klinkenberg had been with BuzzFeed since January 2015. Before that, he was a reporting fellow with Wired magazine.

He was also an editorial apprentice at Men’s Health. Klinkenberg graduated from Northwestern University in 2013.

Klinkenberg did not respond to a message sent to his personal email address. Mat Honan, the head of BuzzFeed’s tech coverage, also did not respond to a message about Klinkenberg’s departure.

Klinkenberg’s name no longer appears on BuzzFeed Tech’s masthead.

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.