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Fast Company hires Heilweil as senior writer

Rebecca Heilweil

Fast Company has hired Rebecca Heilweil as a senior writer.

She will start later this week.

Heilweil will be reporting on the technology industry broadly, including artificial intelligence, technology policy, and the commercial space industry.

She finishes her time as a reporter at FedScoop this month, where she broke stories about the government’s interest in Grok, Midnight Blizzard, and the Department of Homeland Security.

Before joining FedScoop, she wrote for a variety of outlets, including Vox/Recode, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, and Wired. She’s also working on a history of the International Space Station, to be published by Astra House in 2027.

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.

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