Axios hires Flaherty as editor for newsletters

Michael Flaherty

Axios has hired Michael Flaherty to be the editor of its new Axios Pro newsletters, slated to launch in January 2022.

For the past four years, Flaherty has been with public relations firm Gladstone Place Partners started by former Wall Street Journal reporter Steve Lipin.

Flaherty previously led Reuters’ activist shareholder and corporate governance coverage out of New York.

Before that, he spent 18 months as a Federal Reserve correspondent in the Washington bureau.

Flaherty also worked in the news organization’s Hong Kong bureau as editor in charge of Asia finance, editor in charge of Asia companies coverage and team leader of the Asia investment desk.

He previously worked as a private equity reporter and a reporter on the Wall Street desk covering the stock market. He won Reuters’ “Journalist of the Year” accolade in 2007 for his coverage of the private equity industry.

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.