Punchbowl News hires Weiss to cover taxes, financial services

Laura Weiss

Punchbowl News has hired Laura Weiss, who will be covering all things financial services, banking and tax.

Weiss joins financial services reporter Brendan Pedersen as Punchbowl plans to launch its policy membership platform The Vault.

She previously spent six years at CQ Roll Call, where she most recently was a tax and economic policy reporter. She was a fellow at Hearst Connecticut newspapers and interned at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Weiss is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where she was managing editor of The Dartmouth.

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.