The Independent hires Baragona as senior reporter

Justin Baragona

The Independent has hired Justin Baragona as a senior reporter.

He will be covering the intersection of media, culture and politics. Baragona will start later this month.

Baragona previously worked for Zeteo News and was a media reporter at The Daily Beast. He is also the founder and publisher of Contemptor, a site focusing on the intersection of politics, culture and the media, and spends most of his waking hours consuming cable news.

The St. Louis-based writer previously served as a cable-news correspondent and editor for Mediaite. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

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.