Ag reporter Bustillo departing Politico for NPR

Ximena Bustillo

Ximena Bustillo, who has been covering food and agriculture policy at Politico, is leaving to join NPR’s Washington desk.

She will start later this month.

Bustillo is the author of the Morning and Weekly Agriculture newsletters. She covers immigration, climate, labor, supply chain and equity issues and policies daily. Previously she worked as a legislative reporter on the legislative tracking team analyzing bills related to agriculture, trade, cannnabis, education and spending.

Before joining Politico, Bustillo was a breaking news reporter for the Idaho Statesman in Boise covering general assignments, crime, courts, coronavirus, protests and education. While at the Statesman, she helped spearhead a project to produce up-to-date Covid-19 news in Spanish through print, digital and broadcast formats.

She is a Boise State University graduate.

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.