Savage to cover women in the workforce for the AP

Claire Savage

Associated Press reporter Claire Savage is now covering women in the workforce.

She has been a reporter in Chicago, covering institutions serving young people in Illinois and investigating how well they help youth. Before joining the AP, Savage reported on online disinformation, with an emphasis on inaccurate COVID-19 and vaccine claims, for Agence France-Presse in Washington, D.C.

Savage was an intern at NBC Washington/Telemundo and completed a fellowship with Atlantic Media.

She holds a master’s degree in international journalism from American University and a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and international business from Washington University in St. Louis, where she earned All-American honors in swimming.

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.