Technica.ly hires Roeder as lead reporter in DC

Kaela Roeder

Kaela Roeder has been hired as Technica.ly’s lead reporter in Washington.

Sameer Rao of Technica.ly writes, “Roeder is deeply embedded in and connected to the nation’s capital. An alum of American University, they spent the last few years working as an editor with Street Sense Media and WUSA9 and reporting for the Washington Blade and The Hill Events. She also served in prestigious fellowships with the Poynter Institute and the National Press Foundation, and is a member of The Association of LGBTQ Journalists, the Education Writers Association and the Society of Professional Journalists.

“Throughout these roles, Roeder got the chance to cover health, homelessness, entertainment, local businesses, politics and more.”

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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.