Thompson to cover disinformation for NY Times tech team

Stuart Thompson

Stuart A. Thompson of the New York Times is moving to the technology news team to cover disinformation.

“Ultimately this was the right time for me to dive into a new role with a narrower focus, covering a topic that I am increasingly obsessed with,” he wrote on Twitter. “The chance to focus on beat reporting and writing, while also deploying the other tools in my toolkit, was an attractive proposal.”

Thompson a currently a writer and editor in the Opinion section. He works as the head of Opinion’s visual journalism department, focusing on telling stories in new ways using data and visuals. His most recent work has focused on technology, privacy and politics.

Previously, he worked as the graphics director at The Wall Street Journal, where he was part of a large team that won the Pulitzer Prize for the series “Medicare Unmasked.”

In 2018, he was on a team of Pulitzer Prize finalists for a series on domestic gun violence called “The Home Front.”

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.