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Politico food and ag reporter Evich is departing

Helena Bottemiller Evich

Helena Bottemiller Evich, a senior food and agriculture reporter at Politico, is leaving the news organization after eight years for a new opportunity.

She has been writing about the policy and politics that shape our food system, from the farm bill to school lunch.

She has received numerous awards for her work, including a George Polk Award for a series on climate change and two James Beard Awards for features on nutrition and science.

Before joining Politico in 2013, she was a reporter at Food Safety News where she covered deadly foodborne illness outbreaks and the run-up to Congress passing the most significant update to food safety law in a century.

Born and raised in Washington state, Evich attended Claremont McKenna College, where she studied government.

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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