WSJ hires its first Israeli tech reporter

Wall Street Journal technology editor Jonathan Krim sent out the following staff hire announcement on Monday:

We are delighted to announce that Orr Hirschauge is joining the WSJ tech coverage team as our first technology reporter based in Israel.
His appointment as a dedicated, full-time tech correspondent in Israel – one of the world’s most vibrant tech hubs – deepens our global approach and network of journalists covering this crucial sector.
Orr comes to us from Israel’s premier business daily, TheMarker, where he started as a technology reporter in 2008. Within four years he rose through the ranks and was appointed editor of TheMarker’s online tech section. He is well-known in Israel as a news-breaking journalist, and a must-read in the local startup scene.
Among his many scoops, Orr reported on the first-ever survey showing how veterans of Israeli army technology units were dominating the Israeli startup scene, and uncovering documents demonstrating the degree of vendor lock-in at government IT departments.
Orr was raised in a Kibbutz in the south of Israel, and has a bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Sciences from the Hebrew University.
In his spare time he likes to hunt for rare antiquarian books in local book stores. Orr will be based in Tel Aviv, and you can follow him @orr_hirsch. 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.