Tampa Bay Times hires George to cover transportation and tourism

Olivia George

The Tampa Bay Times has hired Olivia George to cover transportation and tourism.

George recently graduated from Brown University, where she studied history.

She is a 2022 winner of the Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Award. In 2021, she was awarded an Investigative Reporters and Editors fellowship.

George previously interned at The Virginian-Pilot. Before that, she worked on a year-long reporting project about the opioid crisis in Rhode Island.

She was an editor at the Brown Daily Herald and a researcher for Possibly, a sustainability podcast that airs on The Public’s Radio.

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.