Reuters correspondent Slattery moving to DC

Gram Slattery

Reuters correspondent Gram Slattery is moving to its Washington bureau to cover Congress and campaigns.

He has been a Rio de Janeiro-based correspondent for Reuters specializing in the oil and gas industry, as well as white-collar crime and corruption. Slattery’s recent stories have shed light on criminal wrongdoing by some of the world’s largest commodity traders and revealed how organized crime groups have infiltrated Brazil’s largest fuel distributors.

Slattery was previously stationed in São Paulo and Santiago and has also reported extensively from Argentina and Bolivia.

He was born in Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard College.

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.