Semafor hires Dadouch to cover Saudi region

Sarah Dadouch

Semafor has hired Sarah Dadouch to cover Saudi financial, business and geopolitical news.

She has been at The Washington Post as a Beirut-based correspondent covering Syria and Lebanon, as well as the Gulf.

Previously, she was a Reuters correspondent in Beirut, Riyadh and Istanbul covering Lebanon, Syria, the Gulf and Turkey. She grew up in Damascus, Syria.

Dadouch holds a bachelor’s degree from Cal Berkeley and a master’s degree 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.