Politico hires Downs to cover agriculture

Garrett Downs

Politico has hired reporter Garrett Downs to cover agriculture.

He previously was an associate editor at Agri-Pulse Communications and an associate editor and reporter at Inside Washington Publishers.

Downs interned for Politico and Our Voice NYC.

Downs is a graduate of St. John’s 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.