Arciga leaves Politico for job outside journalism

Julia Arciga

Politico reporter Julia Arciga is leaving the news organization for a job outside journalism.

Her last day was Monday. She covered legislation around technology, cybersecurity and defense.

She previously was a reporter at Law360 and at The Daily Beast.

Prior to joining the Beast, Arciga was first a politics editor and then editor-in-chief at MediaFile. She has also served as a news channel intern at NBC News assisting producers, editors and correspondents in building daily news packages from D.C. for NBC affiliates across the country.

Arciga has also served as an intern at CNN and as a Washington correspondent at Conflict News. She also held the posts of collegiate correspondent and media intern at USA Today and American Veterans Center, respectively.

In addition, she has worked at other places, including Radio America, DC Inno, The GW Hatchet and Mustang Morning News.

Arciga holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from George Washington University.

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.