Politico hires Faggionato to cover European competition

Politico Europe has hired Giovanna Faggionato to cover competition in Brussels.

She has been with Domani in Rome for the past three years as a senior reporter and as senior editor for economics coverage.

Faggionato previously worked at Lettera43 as co-head of the foreign desk and as a correspondent in Belgium.

She also worked as a press officer for the European Parliament.

Faggionato holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Universita degli Studi di Padova.

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.