E&E News reporter Dumain to become policy editor

Emma Dumain

E&E News Congress reporter Emma Dumain is the new policy editor on the Politico Congress team.

She has been at E&E News since May 2020.

Dumain joined McClatchy in 2017 as a South Carolina correspondent covering delegation and state news from Capitol Hill. Two years later, she was promoted to her current post of Congressional leadership correspondent at the company.

Dumain was a D.C. correspondent for The (Charleston) Post and Courier covering delegation and news relating to the state coming out of Washington. She also served as a reporter at both Roll Call and Congressional Quarterly.

Dumain holds a bachelor’s degree in English language and literature from Oberlin College.

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.