Politico hires Freed as editor for tax coverage

Benjamin Freed

Politico has hired Benjamin Freed to be a supervising editor for tax coverage.

He previously was at Bloomberg Tax as a state team leader.

Freed previously was the managing editor of StateScoop and EdScoop, covering cybersecurity issues affecting state and local governments across the country. He has written extensively about ransomware, election security and the federal government’s role in assisting states and cities with information security.

He previously worked at Washingtonian magazine covering politics, media and culture. He was also editor in chief of DCist.com.

Freed holds a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis 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.