Mufson leaving Washington Post after 34 years

Steven Mufson

Washington Post reporter Steven Mufson, who covers the business of climate change, is leaving the paper after 34 years.

He still plans to write for the paper on a freelance basis.

Since joining The Post in 1989, he has covered economic policy, China, diplomacy, energy and the White House. He has also been an editor in the Outlook section. Earlier, he spent six years working for the Wall Street Journal in New York, London and Johannesburg.

In 2020, he shared the Pulitzer Prize for a climate change series “2C: Beyond the Limit.”

Mufson is a graduate of Yale 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.