RTO Insider hires Downing as a DC reporter

James Downing

RTO Insider has hired James Downing as a reporter in Washington covering the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

He previously worked for CQ Roll Call since November 2021.

Downing spent 15 years at Power Markets Today as an editor and reporter. He also worked at the Sentinel & Enterprise newspaper in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

Downing is a Boston University graduate. RTO Insider covers the electric industry.

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.