Washington Publish makes adjustments to tech staff

Washington Publish enterprise editor Lori Montgomery made the next announcement on Tuesday:

We’re happy to announce a brand new modifying construction on the Enterprise desk aimed toward elevating the work of our rising expertise staff, a important pillar of Washington Publish journalism. This new construction will create clearer lanes of authority on the tech staff, whereas focusing recent consideration on our excellent private finance protection.

Christina Passariello will change into deputy enterprise editor for expertise and private finance, working alongside Deputy Enterprise Editor Damian Paletta, who will retain accountability for economics, well being protection and breaking information. In her new function, Christina will proceed to supervise the expertise staff, serving to to set technique, information protection and advance our most bold tasks. She additionally will tackle the private finance portfolio, drawing on her expertise launching Assist Desk, our signature private tech vertical, to broaden and elevate the staff we’re constructing round our award-winning private finance columnist, Michelle Singletary. As well as, Christina will lead an inner firm activity drive targeted on how the AI revolution will have an effect on The Publish’s journalism and its digital technique, notably search. On this initiative, which is separate from our information protection of AI, she is going to work intently with Sally.

Christina has led The Publish’s expertise staff for 5 years, overseeing a interval of fast development and accomplishment. Amongst different achievements, she edited “Secret Life of Your Data,” a collection by columnist Geoff Fowler that gained a 2020 Loeb Award for commentary. She additionally edited a groundbreaking 2022 story by reporter Nitasha Tiku a couple of Google engineer who thought the company’s chatbot had come to life. And she or he conceived our unique approach to personal tech coverage, casting Assist Desk as an initiative that may empower tech customers as a substitute of selling the most recent gadget. Earlier than The Publish, Christina spent 14 years on the Wall Avenue Journal, the place she was deputy tech editor and a overseas correspondent in Paris, amongst different roles. A graduate of the College of California at Berkeley and a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford, she relies in San Francisco.

A number of of the tech editors, who will proceed to report back to Christina, additionally will assume new roles.

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 08: Laura Stevens is deputy expertise editor for The Washington Publish. She is photographed in Washington, DC on Might 08, 2019. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Publish)

Laura Stevens will change into expertise {industry} editor, driving information protection throughout the tech staff, which encompasses practically half the Enterprise employees and has outposts in Washington, New York, Florida and Texas. On this function, Laura will form our every day report, pushing to set the information agenda on our most essential strains of protection, from the rise of synthetic intelligence to the more and more grim financial instances in Silicon Valley, whereas searching for alternatives to light up different essential developments, such because the latest collapse of Silicon Valley Financial institution. Laura will proceed to guide a staff of reporters skilled on delivering scoops and enterprise on the evolution of the tech giants – together with Apple, Amazon and Google – in addition to the drama at Tesla, Twitter and different companies owned by Elon Musk, with a pointy give attention to tales that reveal how Massive Tech influences society and our lives.

Since becoming a member of The Publish in 2019 as deputy tech editor, Laura has established herself as a tenacious competitor and valued mentor to reporters throughout the Enterprise employees wanting to develop sources inside company America. Amongst different achievements, Laura helped information our sweeping 2021 dive into the Frances Haugen Facebook Papers, which revealed how the social media firm uncovered susceptible communities around the globe to a cocktail of harmful content material. Laura additionally drove our industry-leading protection of Elon Musk, his Twitter takeover and his troubled tenure at Tesla. Earlier than coming to The Publish, Laura spent 9 years on the Wall Avenue Journal, overlaying Amazon in San Francisco, UPS and FedEx in Atlanta, and Deutsche Financial institution in Frankfurt, Germany. She additionally labored on the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Laura is graduate of the College of Central Florida and a Fulbright scholar who speaks fluent German.

Yun-Hee Kim writer picture (The Washington Publish)

Yun-Hee Kim, our private expertise editor and the founding editor of Assist Desk, will proceed to supervise our stellar private tech protection whereas working with me and Christina to develop initiatives. Yun-Hee has displayed distinctive talent at scaling and increasing the Assist Desk mission and guiding a staff of reporters and editors who faucet into the wants of our viewers in recent, revolutionary and pressing methods. Within the coming yr, Yun-Hee will construct on this success by main an growth of The Publish’s ambitions to increase our model digitally to advertise the personalities of our tech reporters and editors in San Francisco, New York and Washington; and to experiment with particular content material, together with video, social media, podcasts and stay occasions, aimed toward cementing The Publish’s popularity as a vacation spot for tech protection.

Yun-Hee joined The Publish in June 2021 and nearly instantly launched Assist Desk, constructing it right into a must-read vacation spot for readers trying to make knowledgeable decisions concerning the expertise of their lives. Beneath her management, the Assist Desk staff has delivered actionable recommendation on such subjects as whether or not you actually ought to quit Facebook or TikTok in addition to deep-dive tales of nationwide significance on the privacy implications of the repeal of Roe vs. Wade and the data-sharing practices of health apps. Working with colleagues throughout the newsroom, Yun-Hee has championed new story codecs, main her staff to supply award-winning interactive quizzes; partaking and informative social videos; a brand new tech column series; “The Tech Friend,” a brand new twice-weekly e-newsletter; and our just-launched project on the future of work. She has labored on the Wall Avenue Journal and Dow Jones, the place she spent greater than 20 years as a reporter and editor in New York, Hong Kong and Seoul overlaying expertise and enterprise and main information groups. Yun-Hee is a graduate of Columbia Journalism Faculty.

WASHINGTON DC-MAY 24 Washington Publish Options Author Lisa Bonos in Washington, DC on Might 24, 2018. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Publish)

Earlier than becoming a member of the tech staff, Lisa labored within the Model part, overlaying relationship and relationships. In practically 18 years at The Publish, she additionally has labored as an assistant editor on Outlook and a multiplatform editor on the Opinion and Enterprise desks. Lisa, a graduate of UCLA, will report back to Laura.

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 20: Washington Publish employees portrait of Mark Seibel. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Publish)

Mark got here to The Publish from BuzzFeed Information, the place he was nationwide safety editor, managing reporters from San Francisco to Brussels. Earlier than that, he spent practically 35 years on the Miami Herald and its related Washington bureau (managed first by Knight-Ridder and later McClatchy), the place he led reporting efforts that gained three Pulitzer Prizes, three Polk awards and three Abroad Press Membership awards. He has additionally labored on the Los Angeles Occasions, the San Jose Mercury Information, the Dallas Occasions Herald and the Dallas Morning Information. Mark graduated from Southern Methodist College and studied Russian as a Nieman fellow.

In Washington:

Since becoming a member of The Publish in July 2021 as deputy tech coverage editor, Alexis has spearheaded a few of our most bold tasks, together with our protection of the Facebook Papers (with Laura) and our exclusive 2022 report on “Mudge,” the Twitter whistleblower. In between, Alexis has demonstrated a powerful potential to nurture reporters and assist them execute their finest concepts, together with Gerrit De Vynck’s well timed profile of crypto antagonist Molly White, Lizza Dwoskin’s exploration of the political transformation of Peter Thiel, Cat Zakrzewski’s investigation into Facebook’s foray into Astro-turf lobbying and Taylor Lorenz’s exposé of a video app that misled dozens of Black influencers. Alexis beforehand was deputy editor of Jezebel, a senior editor at Wired and a senior author on the Columbia Journalism Assessment. She holds a grasp’s diploma in science and expertise journalism from Columbia College and a bachelor’s diploma in English literature from Yale College, and can proceed to report back to Mark.