Prang departs Politico to freelance, finish novel

Allison Prang

Politico reporter Allison Prang has left the news organization to finish a book and to freelance.

She has been covering sustainability for the news organization for nearly two years.

Prang previously spent five years at the Wall Street Journal, where she covered breaking news while writing about labor, banking and the stock market on the side. At the Journal, she wrote about everything from the end of the Hoffa era at the Teamsters union to shifts in how banks serve customers.

Before the Journal, she was a reporter for American Banker where she wrote about community banks. She also was a business reporter for the Charleston, South Carolina-based newspaper, the Post and Courier, where she covered tourism and tech.

She is a graduate of the University of Missouri.

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.