AP econ reporter Boak moving to White House team

Josh Boak

Associated Press economics reporter Josh Boak is moving to the news service’s White House team.

He will be focused on President-elect Joe Biden’s handling of the economy, both the policies his administration is championing and the impact of those policies on Americans.

Boak has been an economics reporter for the AP since November 2013. He previously was deputy Washington bureau chief for The Fiscal Times and an economics reporter for Politico.

He also was a business reporter for the Chicago Tribune, covering energy, derivatives and agriculture. Boak also covered politics at The Toledo Blade, where he won a Livingston Award and a Gerald Loeb Award.

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.