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NBC News hires Hurley from Reuters

Lawrence Hurley

NBC News has hired Reuters legal affairs reporter Lawrence Hurley to cover the Supreme Court.

He has been recently covering the U.S. Supreme Court, and he was part of a Pulitzer Prize winning team project on how the defense of qualified immunity protects police officers accused of excessive force.

Hurley has been with Reuters since February 2013. He previously was a legal reporter for E&E News and also covered Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court for the Los Angeles Daily Journal.

He also was a legal affairs reporter for The Daily Record in Baltimore and a reporter for the Gloucester Citizen.

Hurley holds a master’s degree from the University of St. Andrews.

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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