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Washington Post announces expansion of tech coverage

The Washington Post announced plans Thursday to expand its technology coverage, adding 11 new positions for reporters, editors and videographers.

The initiative will mean significant growth for The Post’s San Francisco bureau, where two technology reporters and one editor are now based. The bureau also will now house a video studio. Positions also will be added in Seattle and Washington, D.C.

In addition to the 14 journalists who already focus all or most of their time on technology coverage, the new positions for reporters, editors and video journalists bring the total to 25 – an 80 percent increase. These positions contribute to an already expanded business section that has doubled its staff over the past five years, with greater coverage in areas ranging from economic policy to the business of entertainment.

“This investment represents a major enhancement of our already distinguished business coverage and a recognition that technology deserves concentrated attention,” said Martin Baron, executive Editor of The Post.

The new positions include:

“The technology industry – with its dramatic impact on every individual, every industry and the political arena – is at the center of a profound national debate,” said David Cho, business editor of The Post. “We aim to cover developments in the industry and the broader societal issues with vigor, deep insight and high impact.”

The Post previously announced that it will launch the Tech 202 newsletter, anchored by Cat Zakrzewski, which will focus on the intersection of Washington and Silicon Valley.

Beyond the technology expansion, The Post’s business section will hire an additional Washington, D.C.-based breaking-news reporter.

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.