Washington Post taps Bogage to be Congress economics correspondent

Jacob Bogage

Washington Post business reporter Jacob Bogage is now the paper’s Congressional economics correspondent, covering how the economy is regulated.

He has been writing about business and technology for The Post, where he’s worked since 2015. He’s previously covered the automotive and manufacturing industries and wrote for the Sports section.

He has previously reported for the Columbia Missourian, Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune, Bethesda Magazine and the Montgomery County Gazette.

He is a Maryland native and a graduate of the University of Missouri.

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.