Washington Post’s Romm departing for new opportunity

Tony Romm, economic policy and accountability reporter at The Washington Post, is leaving for a new opportunity.

He has been at The Post for seven years. His most recent job focused on how economic policy affected people’s lives.

Romm also covered tech policy for The Post, breaking stories about Facebook’s attempt to fight the federal government over a hefty fine and the collapse of a program to help lower-income Americans pay their phone bills. He joined The Post in 2018 from Recode and has also covered tech policy for Politico.

He is a graduate of 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.