BGOV hires Tritten as a senior reporter

Travis Tritten

Travis J. Tritten has been hired as a senior reporter at Bloomberg Government.

Tritten, who was a defense and national security reporter at the Examiner, will cover defense and national security coverage at the Pentagon.

At the Examiner, where he worked since March 2017, Tritten helped compile the “Daily on Defense” newsletter. He has 15 years of experience reporting on the military, government and politics in the United States and abroad.

Previously he was the Capitol Hill reporter at Stars and Stripes newspaper and spent seven years as the Japan correspondent, where he covered the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster, the Iraq War and anti-terrorism operations in the Philippines.

Tritten also worked for the Key West Citizen and the Myrtle Beach Sun News.

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.