Dustin Volz Joins The Times

Nearly every day, we get another reminder about how new cybertactics and artificial intelligence advancements are transforming national security, intelligence and law enforcement. Staying on the leading edge of this fast-moving story requires a journalist with deep expertise in changing technologies, the reporting firepower to penetrate government institutions and a collaborative spirit. We are delighted to announce that we are bringing in a big talent to take on this mission.

Dustin Volz is joining us from The Wall Street Journal, where he has spent the last eight years covering cybersecurity and intelligence in Washington. His award-winning work focuses on the hackers and spies who work in the shadows to achieve geopolitical advantage, and how businesses and governments are often ill-equipped to address these evolving threats.

Dustin will work closely with our Justice Department and national security teams, and we expect him to range widely in breaking news and explaining the intersection of technology and some of the government's most sensitive and secretive functions.

Dustin was part of a team of reporters at The Journal that broke a series of stories on China's deep and sprawling hack of America's telecommunications networks that compromised the F.B.I.'s wiretap systems, a breach considered to be one of the worst counterintelligence failures in U.S. history. Recently, his reporting has chronicled the lucrative successes of North Korea's army of remote IT workers who steal paychecks from unwitting employers and revealed the existence of a top-secret whistle-blower complaint the Trump administration failed to disclose to Congress for eight months.

Before The Journal, Dustin covered cyberconflict at Reuters, where he was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb award for a series on U.S. technology companies sharing their software secrets with Russian intelligence to preserve access to the Russian market.

Dustin began his career in Washington at National Journal in 2013 reporting on congressional efforts to reform the National Security Agency and the related fallout from the Edward Snowden disclosures.

Dustin was born in Evansville, Ind., but grew up mostly in Delaware County, just outside Philadelphia. He is a graduate of Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and was a Fulbright teaching assistant in Indonesia as well as an Arthur F. Burns fellow in Germany.

He starts on April 13. Please join us in welcoming him.

- Dick, Matea, Margaret and Tiffany