Reuters hires Masters as a retail reporter

Kate Masters

Reuters has hired Kate Masters to cover U.S. specialty retailers.

She previously worked as the state health and education reporter for the Virginia Mercury, an affiliate of States Newsroom.

In 2022, she was awarded Outstanding Young Journalist of the Year from the Virginia Press Association for her work during the COVID-19 pandemic, including a series of stories documenting Virginia’s lagging vaccine rollout and hoarding of doses by hospitals across the state. VPA also recognized her reporting on struggling state-funded mental hospitals, a particular passion of mine.

She also have a strong background in lifestyle journalism and won awards for her feature writing at The Frederick (Virginia) News-Post, where she worked as a food critic.

Her writing has appeared in The Trace, the Atlantic, Vice, Women’s Health and The Guardian. 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.