Albany Business Review reporter French joins Politico

Marie French

Marie French, a reporter for the Albany Business Review in upstate New York, has been hired by Politico to cover energy and environment.

French had been working for the American City Business Journals’ paper since July 2015, covering the intersection of New York state government and business and covering health care in the Capital Region.

She previously worked for the Associated Press and the Financial Times, and she interned for Bloomberg News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Orange County Register.

French is a University of Missouri graduate.

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.