Semafor hires Zeballos-Roig to cover economic policy

Joseph Zeballos-Roig

Semafor has hired Joseph Zeballos-Roig to cover economic policy and other issues on Capitol Hill with a focus on the Senate.

He previously was a policy reporter covering taxes, inequality and federal spending at Business Insider.

Zeballos-Roig joined Business Insider in 2019 as a policy reporting fellow. He worked freelance for The New Republic and Bedford + Bowery, a New York Magazine site. Zeballos-Roig interned at WNYC Radio’s “The Takeaway” and CBS News’ “60 Minutes.”

He was also one of 26 college journalists selected from across the nation to be part of The New York Times Student Journalism Institute.

Zeballos-Roig has a B.S. from Florida State University and a M.A. from New York 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.