Politico cybersecurity reporter Sabin is departing

Sam Sabin

Politico reporter Sam Sabin, who wrote its Morning Cyber newsletter, is leaving for a new opportunity.

In the newsletter, she wrote, “You all have been so wonderful over these last 15 months while I got my sea legs covering this wild and crazy cybersecurity world, and I couldn’t be more grateful to have been the one sharing the morning’s news in your inboxes every day. Thank you for your loyalty, patience and pet photos.”

She joined Politico in early 2021. She had been covering tech policy since January 2019, authoring the Morning Consult Tech morning and afternoon newsletters, along with taking on the tech policy beat and reporting on anything tech- and telecom-related in Washington.

Sabin previously covered national media/marketing/tech news and writing the Morning Consult Brands newsletter.

She joined Morning Consult in 2018 after covering tech for DC Inno.

Sabin is a May 2016 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, where she studied business journalism and political science.

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.