MSNBC hires Beckwith as newsletter editor

Ryan Teague Beckwith

MSNBC has hired Ryan Teague Beckwith to be a newsletter editor for its digital operation.

He had been a Washington reporter for Bloomberg News for four years covering the 2020, 2022 and 2024 elections, U.S. politics, election denial and voting systems. He was also a regular guest on “Sound On” and “Balance of Power” on Bloomberg Radio and “Bloomberg Businessweek” on TV.

Beckwith previously worked at Time magazine as a senior editor, Roll Call, Congress.org and The (Raleigh) News & Observer.

He was a 2023 Dateline Award from Washington Society of Professional Journalists for “Five US States Will Decide If the 2024 Election Can Be Stolen.”

Beckwith holds a bachelor’s degree from Wilamette University and a master’s from Columbia University.

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.