Washington Post’s Wiener to cover housing and development

Aaron Wiener

Aaron Wiener is moving back to reporting to cover housing and development for The Washington Post.

Wiener is currently the editor of Retropolis, The Post’s history section, and an assignment editor on the Metro desk.

Before joining The Post in 2021, he worked as a senior editor at Mother Jones, a housing reporter at Washington City Paper, a Berlin correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and the editor of the Washington Independent.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale 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.