ZDNet reporter Cimpanu hired by Record of Recorded Future to cover cybersecurity

Catalin Cimpanu

The Record by Recorded Future has hired Catalin Cimpanu as its first dedicated reporter to build out a must-read site for cybersecurity news.

He starts on Monday.

A story on its website states, “Catalin has years of experience writing about information security, and has become a well-known name in the field for his constant scoops on new vulnerabilities, cyberattacks, and law enforcement actions against hackers. He’s been at ZDNet since 2018, where he wrote thousands of stories on everything from vulnerabilities in ballistic missile systems to the ever-changing ransomware landscape.

“Prior to that, Catalin wrote for the technology news website Bleeping Computer, and got his start reporting on cybersecurity while at Softpedia. He is based in Iași, Romania.

“Over the last year, Catalin’s favorite thing to write about has been ‘any article that’s not COVID-19 and remote work-related. You kind of get your fill after the first month,’ he said. He also enjoys covering academic research on cybersecurity topics.”

Read more here.

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.