Categories: OLD Media Moves

Tech writer Lee leaving Washington Post

Timothy B. Lee, who covers technology policy, including copyright and patent law, telecom regulation, privacy, and free speech for The Washington Post, is leaving to join Ezra Klein’s new Vox Media project, reports Dylan Byers of Politico.

Lee will leave the Post at the end of the month. He also writes about the economics of technology. He has previously written for Ars Technica and Forbes.

Lee was the editor of The Switch, the Post’s technology blog launched in July 2013.

Byers writes, “Klein has already stolen Melissa Bell, the former director of Platforms at The Washington Post; Max Fisher, who anchored The Washington Post’s WorldViews foreign affairs blog; and three more of his former Wonkblog colleagues: Dylan Matthews, Brad Plumer and Sarah Kliff. Last week, Klein also picked up POLITICO education reporter Libby Nelson.

“In a memo, Post editors said they’ll be hiring a new leader for The Switch. The Post has also tapped Jim Tankersley, an economic correspondent, to oversee a new “‘data/storytelling blog.'”

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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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