The Information hires O’Regan to cover Facebook, social media

Tech news site The Information has hired Sylvia Varnham O’Regan to cover Facebook and social media companies.

She will start in March.

O’Regan currently covers development and finance for The Real Deal in New York. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times and other publications.

Before moving to the U.S. in 2016, she spent three years working as a news reporter for SBS Australia, covering immigration and politics.

In 2017, O’Regan graduated with an MA in politics and global affairs from Columbia Journalism School, where she was honored with the James A. Wechsler Memorial Award for best reporting on a national issue. She previously earned degrees in law and arts from The University of Auckland.

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.