E&E News hires Picon to cover energy policy

Andres Picon

E&E News has hired Andres Picon to cover energy policy in Congress.

Picon has been a Politico fellow reporting on energy and environment policy for E&E News.

He came to Politico from the San Francisco Chronicle, where he was a general assignment reporter. Previously, he covered education at the San Antonio Express-News and was a reporter and researcher at the Boston Globe.

Picon has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston 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.