Capital New York hires new media reporter

Kelsey Sutton

Kelsey Sutton has been hired as a reporter at Capital New York.

She originally was hired on as our Dow Jones business news fellowship intern at the beginning of the summer.

She’s going to join Capital New York full time and report on mergers and acquisitions and the business side of media. She’ll also anchor its morning newsletter, Politico Media Pro, for subscribers.

Sutton is a University of Maryland graduate.

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.