Politico hires Marquette to cover transportation

Chris Marquette

Politico has hired Roll Call reporter Chris Marquette to cover transportation.

He has been at Roll Call since July 2017 as a congressional accountability reporter. He covered Jan. 6 select committee, ethics investigations, the House Republican Conference and the U.S. Capitol Police.

Marquette was the runner-up for the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress in 2020.

He was a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2022-23.

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.