Axios tech reporter McGill joins government agency

Margaret Harding McGill, Tech reporter, Pro -- Staff mugshots photographed Feb. 20, 2018. (M. Scott Mahaskey/Politico)

Margaret Harding McGill, Tech reporter, Pro — Staff mugshots photographed Feb. 20, 2018. (M. Scott Mahaskey/Politico)

Axios technology reporter Margaret Harding McGill has joined the public affairs office at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

Previously, McGill worked at Politico. She has covered topics such as net neutrality, mergers and the growing antitrust scrutiny of tech companies. She won the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing Best in Business Award for her article on the barriers to broadband access on Native American lands, and she was the first reporter to break the news about the FCC’s plans for repealing the Obama-era net neutrality rules.

McGill previously covered law enforcement for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review before joining Law360 as a senior telecommunications reporter.

She is a graduate of Michigan State 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.