Covering the federal government biz beat

Robert Terry

Robert Terry, the new federal government contracts reporter for the Washington Business Journal, writes about how he plans to approach the beat.

Terry writes, “I’ll be immersing myself in major solicitations, from RFPs to bid protests; privately held and publicly traded defense and tech companies; GAO and analyst reports; agency budgets; trends in federal procurement; and the money and personalities that fuel this world.

“I also plan to explore the ways in which the Trump administration is disrupting Washington, all while breaking down bureaucratic jargon and complex regulations to illustrate how all this activity straddles official D.C. — the White House, Capitol and Pentagon — and the local business community.

“Who’s winning contracts? Who’s losing them? Who’s hiring? Who’s firing? And what does it mean for the local economy?”

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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.