Categories: OLD Media Moves

Biz reporter Wagner joining BuzzFeed investigations team

Daniel Wagner, a reporter at the Center for Public Integrity, has been hired to work on the BuzzFeed investigations team.

He was on the Center team that produced After the Meltdown, a series showing the lack of accountability for perpetrators of the financial crisis, which was honored with a George Polk Award and Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Previously at The AP, Wagner received two Best in Business awards from the Society for American Business Editors and Writers for stories on banks’ use of bailout money and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s close relationships with bankers. He won a third SABEW award for feature writing for profiling a little-known Treasury Department office that oversees and protects the alcohol and tobacco industries.

Prior to the AP, Wagner was a business reporter for Newsday, covering real estate, land use and the mortgage industry. His team’s early work on the mortgage crisis in 2007 won a National Headliner Award.

Wagner, a native of West Virginia, graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with a degree in folklore and mythology.

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.