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WSJ hires Forbes reporter Olson in London

Parmy Olson

Parmy Olson, a Forbes journalist, has been hired by The Wall Street Journal to cover technology in its London bureau.

“I’m beyond grateful to all my colleagues and friends at where I’ve learned so much over the years, and incredibly excited for this new chapter,” she wrote on Twitter.

She replaces Stu Woo, who is moving to Beijing to cover technology in China.

Olson had been with Forbes since October 2005, starting off as a markets reporter. She eventually wrote daily online features on European business news and became London bureau chief, leading a team of three reporters covering business and finance news in the region.

She most recently has been a senior technology reporter, covering developments in artificial intelligence, privacy, digital health and robotics in Europe and Silicon Valley. Her book “We Are Anonymous” was the first, inside look at the global hacktivist collective Anonymous and its spinoff LulzSec.

Olson previously worked for the BBC and holds a degree from City University of London.

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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