Protocol hires Jenkins to be a reporter on its climate desk

Tech news site Protocol has hired Morning Consult senior reporter Lisa Martine Jenkins to be a reporter on its new climate desk.

She will start later this month.

Jenkins has been at Morning Consult since February 2020 covering energy. She previously was North America reporter for Chemical Watch, covering chemical regulation for an industry, government, and activist audience. She also focused on how public and environmental health issues can inform regulatory policy in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America.

She previously was a reporting fellow at the Associated Press.

Jenkins holds an undergraduate degree from University of California-Berkeley and a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins 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.