Leavenworth departing Washington Post

Stuart Leavenworth, climate and environment policy, politics and power editor at the Washington Post, is leaving for a new opportunity.

Leavenworth previously worked at the Los Angeles Times, where he led multimedia projects documenting the lethal toll of California heat waves, the U.S. radiation legacy in the Marshall Islands, and the human and financial costs of abandoned oil wells in California, among other topics.

He also spent three years as Beijing bureau chief and two years as national correspondent for McClatchy. His reporting and travels have taken him to more than 40 countries, which have ranged from Mongolia to Myanmar.

Leavenworth has also worked at the Sacramento Bee, The (Raleigh) News & Observer and other newspapers. The California native stumbled his way into journalism via the UC Santa Cruz student paper and later received a master’s degree at the Columbia University Journalism School.

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.