Axios hires Heath to cover global technology

Axios has hired Ryan Heath to be its global technology correspondent.

He most recently has been editorial director of Politico Live and was also editorial director of global growth at Politico.

Heath has also been a senior EU correspondent and associate editor at Politico. He began writing for national newspapers in his native Australia in 1999. After working as a speechwriter for the British civil service for seven years, he joined the European Commission spokespersons’ service in 2011 working for President José Manuel Barroso and Vice President Neelie Kroes.

Heath has been a regular policy commentator on outlets such as the BBC, Deutsche Welle and Al-Jazeera, and reported from major events such as the World Economic Forum in Davos and Eurovision.

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.