WaPo hires new tech reporter

Washington Post financial editor Greg Schneider and deputy financial editor David Cho sent out the following announcement on Wednesday:

We are thrilled to announce that Nancy Scola is joining the Financial team to take a lead role writing for The Switch.

Nancy is a contributing writer for the urban affairs publication Next City and a freelancer whose work has appeared in publications including CJR, New York Magazine, Salon, The American Prospect, The Atlantic.com, Washingtonian and the Post. She has a deep background in tech policy, having served as a tech policy adviser to Henry Waxman and the House Committee on Government Reform, and to Mark Warner as he pondered a run for president. More recently, Nancy was the lead writer and associate editor of techPresident, a site that covers the role of technology in politics.

With undergraduate (George Washington) and graduate (Boston U.) degrees in anthropology, Nancy brings a high-altitude view to the way technology affects society. That has led to some eye-catching clips, such as pieces on using GPS to map segregation and efforts to map bacteria in New York City sewers, and a definitive look at the origins and impact of the Uber car service. She will help set the tone as The Switch continues to carve out its niche in the competitive tech landscape, bringing a drive for old-fashioned reporting and breaking news.

Please join us in welcoming Nancy when she starts on June 30.