Chris Riotta

Chris Riotta-Rogers is a journalist and managing editor at ISMG, where he covers federal cybersecurity and artificial intelligence policy.

Based in Washington, D.C., Riotta reports on the agencies, lawmakers and executive actions that determine how the federal government defends its networks and how it writes the rules for everyone else. As managing editor, he assigns and edits government cybersecurity coverage across the newsroom and builds the editorial calendar around hearings, agency actions and regulatory deadlines. He also hosts and moderates ISMG executive roundtables nationwide, convening CISOs and senior security leaders for working conversations on agentic AI, non-human identity, post-quantum cryptography and data resilience, and appears regularly on ISMG editorial panels.

Riotta previously covered technology policy at Nextgov/FCW, national politics at The Independent and breaking news for Newsweek Magazine. As a research fellow at Columbia Journalism Investigations, he contributed to an award-winning investigation into children left orphaned in the U.S. by the COVID-19 pandemic. Riotta has been nominated for Echo Awards in both technology journalism and government policy, and has advocated for imprisoned journalists through the Press Uncuffed and "Journalism is Not a Crime" campaigns.

A native New Yorker, he is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he served as class president, and the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

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