The Markup’s Mattu named Knight-Wallace fellow

Surya Mattu

Surya Mattu, an investigative Data Journalist at The Markup, has been named a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow at the University of Michigan.

Mattu will research how smartphone applications are used to track consumers.

The Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellowships provide an academic year of support and collaborative learning. Fellows undertake projects examining pressing public challenges including social shifts precipitated by the pandemic, the nation’s deep economic and political divisions, and persistent social justice issues surrounding race, ethnicity and inequality.

Mattu has been with The Markup since September 2018 and previously was a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab/Center for Future Civic Media. He also worked as a data reporter on the special projects desk at Gizmodo.

See all of the fellows here.

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.