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Reuters hires Banco to cover national security

Erin Banco

Reuters has hired Erin Banco as a national security reporter.

She has been covering national security for the past two years at Politico. Banco previously was a global health correspondent covering the pandemic.

Before Politico, she was a national security reporter at the Daily Beast. She was also an investigative reporter at The Star-Ledger and her bylines have also appeared in The New York Times, Foreign policy, Newsweek, CNN and more.

Banco was also a Middle East correspondent at IBT Media in Istanbul, Turkey.

Banco has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s from Columbia 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.

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