The Daily Beast hired Bender as innovation reporter

Maddie Bender

The Daily Beast has hired Maddie Bender to be an innovation reporter.

Bender has been a freelance reporter whose work has appeared in STAT, Scientific American, VICE, Men’s Health, Popular Science, Inverse, Massive Science, and others, and it has been recognized by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and national radio.

She was a 2021 AAAS Mass Media Fellow and the 2020 winner of former New York Times columnist Nick Kristof’s annual win-a-trip-contest for students.

Bender holds a master’s degree from the Yale University School of Public Health, where she concentrated in microbial disease epidemiology. Prior to that, she received undergraduate degrees in ecology and evolutionary biology and classics from Yale.

At Yale, she edited the Yale Daily News and researched bacterial metabolism. She interned for CNN Health, Aledade, and “Wow in the World,” the NPR science podcast for kids.

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.