Axios hires Forbes’ Solender to cover Capitol Hill

Andrew Solender

Newsletter operation Axios has hired Forbes senior reporter Andrew Solender to cover Capitol Hill.

He will start next week.

Andrew Solender

For Forbes, Solender has been covering the White House, Congress, and all things political. He previously covered the transition and Congress, as well as the 2020 election.

Solender was a political correspondent for Luminary Media.

In addition, he has also served as a contributor at Psychology Today and has interned at MSNBC. He was also the features editor at The Beaver Newspaper where he edited content for the features section. He also helped develop editorial direction and strategy at the paper.

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.