WSJ hires Tibken as personal tech news editor

Shara Tibken

The Wall Street Journal has hired Shara Tibken as personal tech news editor, based in San Francisco

She spent nine years at CNET, most recently as managing editor of the CNET News team. She was the Apple beat reporter for six years, and covered Samsung and other mobile device makers. She’s had two journalism fellowships in Germany, and has written extensively about 5G and the digital divide.

She began her journalism career at Dow Jones Newswires, where she covered semiconductors, data storage and IBM.

Tibken is a graduate of Simpson College.

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.