Reuters hires Stafford as global race and justice editor

Kat Stafford

Reuters has hired Kat Stafford to be its global race and justice editor.

She will start on Sept. 5.

Stafford has been with the Associated Press as a national investigative race reporter. She worked with AP journalists around the country and globally to deliver smart and impactful journalism on the issues of race and inequality.

Stafford was an enterprise and investigative reporter at the Detroit Free Press

Stafford is a 2019 Ida B. Wells Investigative Fellow and graduated in 2012 from Eastern Michigan University with a degree in journalism.

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.