The Verge hires Sato to cover tech companies and platforms

Mia Sato

The Verge has hired Mia Sato to cover tech companies and their platforms.

She starts on Monday.

She is currently a reporter on the MIT Tech Review’s Pandemic Technology Project, covering the intersection of covid-19 and the technology used to track and fight it.

She was previously the audience engagement editor at The Markup, a nonprofit news outlet focused on technology. Her work has appeared in the Verge, the Appeal, Chicago Magazine and elsewhere.

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.