AP hires Hussein to cover Treasury Department

The Associated Press has hired Bloomberg Industry reporter Fatima Hussein to cover the Treasury Department.

Hussein has been covering worker safety and environmental law stories for Bloomberg Law and Bloomberg Environment. She has also been president of the Washington Baltimore News Guild.

Before Bloomberg, she was a legal affairs reporter at the Indianapolis Star and a legal and workplace reporter at the Cincinnati Enquirer. She was also a business reporter at the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Hussein holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Florida and a law degree from Florida Coastal School of Law.

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.