Technology journalist David Akin has left the National Post to join CTV news. Billing himself as the first convergence journalist in the country, Akin will be preparing items for both CTV and the Globe and Mail. He has been reporting on technology issues for the Post since the paper’s launch in 1998, most recently as one of the Post’s senior technology reporters and the paper’s lead writer for Internet infrastructure issues, Internet portals and broad cultural and social policy issues affecting the Internet such as cryptography, privacy, and public policy responses.