Axios hires Knight to cover health care policy

Victoria Knight

Axios has hired Kaiser Health News reporter Victoria Knight to cover health care policy.

She will start in August.

Knight currently covers Congress and a wide range of health care issues from Washington. She is Kaiser Health’s lead reporter working with PolitiFact to check the claims of politicians, advocates, and companies on health care.

Knight is also a member of the 2022 class of the National Press Foundation’s Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship. Victoria is interested in exploring how health policy decisions in Washington impact everyday Americans and keeping those who hold institutional power accountable.

She has a bachelor’s in microbiology from the University of Tennessee and a master’s in health journalism from the University of Georgia.

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.