Dustin Volz
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Bachelor of Arts, Journalism (B.A.); Bachelor of Arts, History (B.A.)
Arizona State University
2008 : 2012
High School Diploma
Penncrest High School
2004 : 2008
2018 : Present
The Wall Street Journal
Cybersecurity and Intelligence Reporter
• Covered cybersecurity from the Washington angle, including nation-state conflicts, corporate espionage, federal government hacks, surveillance and digital privacy, terror networks and recruiting and online consumer scams.
• Major stories followed included Russian interference in the 2016 election, the WannaCry and NotPetya global cyberattacks, Apple vs. FBI, the drive to ban Kaspersky Lab products from U.S. government networks, and efforts in Congress to reform surveillance practices under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
• Part of a three-person team that won Reuters’ annual Scoop of the Year award in 2017 for a series on U.S. technology companies sharing their software secrets with Russian intelligence to preserve access to the Russian market, an investigation that was also a finalist for the 2018 Gerald Loeb Award.
2015 : 2018
Reuters News Agency
Cybersecurity Reporter
• Selected as one of 10 U.S. and Canadian journalists to work as a foreign correspondent in a German newsroom for two months via the Arthur F. Burns fellowship
• Covered stories including the ongoing post-Snowden fallout in Germany regarding government surveillance, Google's European antitrust disputes, the Volkswagen emissions scandal and the refugee crisis. Work was published in both Handelsblatt Global and National Journal
2015 : 2015
Handelsblatt Global Edition
Arthur F. Burns Fellow
• Daily and feature reporting on politics, Congress and technology for one of D.C.’s oldest and most influential publications
• Coverage included the two-year push in Congress for NSA surveillance reform, the massive hack of personnel files at the Office of Personnel Management, patent reform efforts in Congress, net neutrality, the sharing economy, and the Senate torture report, among other topics.
2013 : 2015
National Journal
Tech Policy Correspondent
• Selected from a pool of roughly 1,000 applicants for Atlantic Media Company's yearlong fellowship program
2013 : 2013
Atlantic Media
Editorial Fellow
Skills
Ap Style, Blogging, Breaking News, Column Writing, Content Management, Copy Editing, Editing, Editorial, Event Planning, Facebook, Feature Articles, Final Cut Pro, Journalism, Magazines, Media Analysis, Multimedia, Newsletters, Newspapers, News Writing, Photography, Publications, Publishing, Social Media, Video, Web Content Management, WordPress
About
Dustin Volz is a Washington-based cybersecurity and intelligence reporter for The Wall Street Journal. His coverage focuses on the national security and geopolitical dimensions of nation-state hacking conflict, digital espionage, online influence operations, election interference and government surveillance.
Before joining the Journal in 2018, Dustin worked at Reuters and National Journal, and his reporting has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Center for Public Integrity, and The Arizona Republic, among other publications. His journalism has been internationally recognized, including by the White House Correspondents' Association, the Gerald Loeb Awards, the Society of Publishers in Asia, and the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.
In addition to Washington, Dustin has reported from London, Berlin, San Francisco and the Dominican Republic. He is a graduate of Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Prior to starting his journalism career, Dustin spent a year living in Indonesia as a Fulbright teaching assistant.
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