The Markup hires CNET’s Ng to cover privacy

Alfred Ng

Tech news site The Markup has hired CNET’s Alfred Ng to cover privacy.

Ng is a senior reporter for CNET News. He was raised in Brooklyn and previously worked on the New York Daily News’s social media and breaking news teams.

He joined CNET in September 2016. He previously worked as the associate engagement editor at the New York Daily News, where he juggled running the paper’s social accounts with breaking local news stories.

Ng is a 2015 graduate of Syracuse University, where he worked on the student newspaper, The Daily Orange.

He interned at the Brooklyn Paper and at the Daily News while in college

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.