Foley departs Politico for Smoke-Free World Foundation

Katherine Foley

Politico reporter Katherine Foley has left the publication to become director of media relations at the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World.

She had been covering the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

She previously worked at Quartz, where she covered health and science issues for the past six years.

Foley holds a master’s in journalism from NYU’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP 33) and an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she studied science, tech and international affairs.

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.