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Intellectual property reporter Eakin moving to immigration beat at Law360

Britain Eakin

Intellectual property reporter Britain Eakin is moving to the immigration beat as a senior reporter for Law360.

Eakin has been on the intellectual property beat for the past three and a half years.

She previously was with Courthouse News as a general assignment reporter covering civil cases in the U.S. District Court, the Supreme Court, congressional hearings and the Guantánamo Bay detention center.

She has reported on the Syrian refugee crisis, the Islamic State group and the Guantánamo parole board hearings at the Pentagon. 

She was also a data editor at the Arizona Sonora News.

Eakin holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a master’s degree from the University of Arizona.

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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