NBC News hires Zanona as Capitol Hill correspondent

Melanie Zanona

NBC News DC bureau chief Ken Strickland sent out the following:

All,
I’m happy to share that Melanie Zanona will join our bureau as a Capitol Hill Correspondent, beginning Monday, February 10^th.
Many of our colleagues in Washington know Melanie well — she’s an award-winning journalist with over a decade of experience breaking news from Capitol Hill. Melanie has covered some of the most consequential storylines in Washington, including two presidential impeachments, multiple historic speakership battles and nearly half a dozen election cycles on the campaign trail. She was most recently reporting for Punchbowl News and has previously covered Congress for CNN and Politico.
Melanie joins our distinguished Capitol Hill unit, led by Ryan, along with Julie, Scott, Sahil, and our producing and research team. Please join me in welcoming Melanie to NBC News.
Ken

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.