FedScoop hires Heilweil as tech reporter

Rebecca Heilweil

Rebecca Heilweil has joined FedScoop as a technology reporter to cover IT issues and tech policy at federal agencies including NASA and the Department of Transportation.

Heilweil has written for publications Fortune, Slate, The Wall Street Journal and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Most recently, she was a reporter at Recode/Vox, where she wrote about topics ranging from NASA’s social media policy for astronauts to the Biden administration’s electric vehicle policy.

She is a University of Pennsylvania graduate.

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.