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Transportation reporter Lazo departing Washington Post

Luz Lazo

Washington Post transportation reporter Luz Lazo is leaving the news organization at the end of the year.

She has been focused on covering the nation’s railroads, highways and bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure.

Lazo has been a reporter for The Post since 2011. She also contributes to the coverage of the region’s Hispanic population and immigrant communities.

A native of El Salvador, she grew up in Washington, D.C., and received undergraduate and graduate degrees at American 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.

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