VentureBeat hires artificial intelligence reporter

Blair Hanley Frank

Blair Hanley Frank has joined VentureBeat as a staff writer to cover artificial intelligence, big data, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise technologies.

Blaise Zerega of VentureBeat writes, “Blair comes to VentureBeat from IDG News Service where he served as a U.S. correspondent and provided breaking news and analysis of the public cloud, productivity and operating systems businesses.

“His articles have appeared in PC World, CIO, and InfoWorld, among others. Prior to IDG, Blair wrote for GeekWire, focusing on such large companies as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter. He holds a B.A. in English from Whitman College.”

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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.