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Washington Post hires Abril to cover tech at work

Danielle Abril

The Washington Post has hired Fortune reporter Danielle Abril to cover tech at work.

She will be at Fortune until the next of next week and start at the Post in July.

She has been with Fortune since 2018 based in San Francisco.  Abril previously founded DigiNews DFW and was the former managing editor of D CEO magazine.

Abril previously served as the technology reporter for the Dallas Business Journal. During her three years there, she launched TechFlash, a daily online newsletter that covered technology and startup stories across Dallas-Fort Worth.

Before joining the Business Journal, Abril spent three years at The Dallas Morning News, reporting for metro and neighbors sections of the paper. There, she focused coverage on cities across Collin County.

She began her journalism career in 2008 at Business News Group, which produces niche publications in Dallas-Fort Worth.

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.

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