CNN tech reporter Fung among the layoffs

Brian Fung

CNN Business tech reporter Brian Fung was among the layoffs this week.

He has been at CNN for five years covering tech, business and policy.

“I’m so grateful for the whole team here. We broke news and helped people make sense of it,” he wrote on Twitter. “I’ll stay a few months, then take time to rest and reflect.”

Fung previously covered business and technology for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post, he was the technology correspondent for National Journal and an associate editor at The Atlantic. He speaks two dialects of Chinese and is a native of the nation’s capital.

He is a graduate of Middlebury College and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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.