Pensions & Investments hires Degen as DC reporter

Courtney Degen

Pensions & Investments has hired Courtney Degen as a Washington reporter.

She will start next week.

Degen recent graduated with a master’s degree from Northwestern University. While there, she was a reporter for the Medill News Service in Washington.

She was a reporter for the Madison Commons before graduate school.

Degen holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin.

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.