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Washington Post hires Heather Kelly to cover tech

Heather Kelly

Washington Post business editor David Cho, deputy business editor Zachary Goldfarb and technology editor Christina Passariello sent out the following announcement on Friday:

We are excited to announce that Heather Kelly will be The Washington Post’s reporter covering the ways technology affects everyday life, including relationships, financial situations, education, work, health and entertainment.

Heather has been a technology reporter and editor for the past 13 years, most recently at CNN where she excelled at writing about innovations and offering advice on how to make good tech-related decisions (or unmake bad ones). Her subjects included a look at a $500 smartphone made of wood, Google’s effort to transform photography with an algorithm, and attempts by parents to look for screen-time alternatives for their children.

She has written stories on virtually all the big tech companies, including Uber, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter. Before joining CNN, she worked at Macworld. Heather received her bachelor’s degree in journalism at New York University. She spent much of her childhood in Oklahoma, where she was the editor of her high school paper. She lives in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood with her husband and two children.

Heather will be in D.C. beginning Aug. 12 before settling into the San Francisco bureau. Please come by and welcome her to the newsroom.

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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