Washington Post hires Shaban from BuzzFeed to cover tech

Hamza Shaban

Washington Post national economy and business editor David Cho, deputy business editor Zachary Goldfarb and digital editor Michelle Williams sent out the following announcement:

We are thrilled to announce that Hamza Shaban will join The Washington Post as a reporter on The Switch. He brings sharp creative thinking – and deep knowledge of how government works – to a critical role on our tech team.
Hamza comes to us from Buzzfeed, where he has covered tech policy for the past two years, writing about antitrust, free speech, surveillance, cybersecurity and the tension between privacy and security interests. As a contributor to The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Slate, he has produced insightful pieces on the history of the microchip, the unseen world of commodity trading and Google’s struggles with consumer protection.
Hamza hails from Florida, growing up in a family that often debated Egyptian politics at the dinner table. He spent six years as a paralegal specialist in the tax division of the Department of Justice, where he realized that journalism was his true calling. He got his BA from the University of Virginia.
He will begin May 22. Please join us in welcoming him

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.