Axios hires Demarest to cover defense

Colin Demarest

Axios has hired Colin Demarest to write about the future of the defense industry.

Demarest was a reporter at C4ISRNET, where he covered military networks, cyber and IT.

He had previously covered the Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration — namely Cold War cleanup and nuclear weapons development — for the Aiken Standard daily newspaper in South Carolina. He also contributed to the Post and Courier in Charleston.

Demarest is a University of South Carolina 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.