Capitol Times hires McGroarty to cover disinformation and tech

Erin McGroarty

The Capitol Times in Wisconsin has hired Erin McGroarty to cover disinformation and technology.

She will start in May.

McGroarty is a graduate student pursuing a professional master’s degree in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin.

She holds an interdisciplinary B.A. in journalism, history and political science from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has reported on policy, government, climate change, social justice movements and the COVID-19 pandemic for Alaska’s second largest newspaper for the past three and a half years.

McGroarty has been recognized for some of the best political and health-related coverage statewide by the Alaska Press Club in 2018 and 2019 and was one of only three dozen women across the country accepted into the Reynolds Journalism Institute 2019 Women in Journalism conference.

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.