Vox climate reporter Leber among those laid off

Rebecca Leber

Vox senior reporter covering climate Rebecca Leber was among those laid off from the publication on Thursday.

Leber previously worked at Mother Jones where she spent more than four years working as a reporter on the climate and environment beat. Before that, she was a news editor at Grist managing its political and news coverage.

She was also a staff writer at The New Republic writing for the magazine and website. She also anchored its climate and environmental coverage. She has also worked as a political reporter at ThinkProgress.

Leber is a B.A. in political science and journalism from University of Rochester.

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.