Axios hires Collings to cover retail

Richard Collings

Axios has hired reporter Richard Collings to cover retail.

He will be covering mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, private equity and other situations related to retail.

Collings previously was a retail reporter at Adweek. He also worked at LevFin Insights as a reporter for a year and at S&P Global Markets covering retail and consumer companies.

He also worked for The Deal for more than five years and at Mergermarket as a reporter.

Collings holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia 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.