Politico taps Meyers as defense editor

Jessica Meyers

Politico has named Jessica Meyers as its defense editor.

She has been deputy standards and ethics editor since joining the news organization in 2023.

Before that, she was editor in chief of Global Press in Washington. Meyers was also an editor at World Bank Group and served as an Asia correspondent in the Beijing bureau at the Los Angeles Times.

She was a national reporter at the Boston Globe and a transportation reporter and tech reporter at Politico. She was also a staff writer at The Dallas Morning News.

Meyers has a bachelor’s degree from Goshen College in Indiana and a master’s degree from The University of California-Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism.

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.