Ellfeldt departs E&E News after four years

Avery Ellfeldt

E&E News reporter Avery Ellfeldt has left the Politico-owned news organization, where she was covering housing, insurance and climate.

She previously interned for the news organization, and she also interned at NPR.

Ellfeldt is a graduate of St. Olaf College, where she was executive editor of the student newspaper, the Manitou Messenger.

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.