Politico hires Gould to cover defense industry

Reporter Joe Gould will be joining Politico as the new anchor of Morning Defense. He’ll also be covering the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations committees, two crucial panels that oversee weapons exports and a host of other international issues.

Gould previously was at Defense News, where he covered land warfare, the Pentagon and Capitol Hill.

Before Defense News, he spent five years covering land warfare for Army Times, after stints at Inside the Army and the New York Daily News.

Gould graduated from the City University of New York, Brooklyn College before getting his master’s degree at Columbia 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.