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Insinna departs Reuters for Breaking Defense

Valerie Insinna

Valerie Insinna will be rejoining Breaking Defense as senior reporter covering both Congress and the global business of defense.

She will start March 4.

Insinna comes back to Breaking Defense, where she previously covered military aviation and the Pentagon, after a year spent covering the commercial aviation sector for Reuters.

She previously worked as the air warfare beat reporter for Defense News for five years, where she was recognized by numerous awards, including the prestigious National Press Club Michael A. Dornheim Award for defense journalism. Other stops include Defense Daily, National Defense Magazine, and two years as the Washington correspondent for the Tokyo Chunichi Shimbun.

She is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia journalism program.

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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