CQ hires Merrion, formerly of Crain’s

Paul Merrion

Paul Merrion, formerly the Washington bureau chief for Crain Communications and Crain’s Chicago Business, has joined CQ Roll Call as a data privacy reporter.

He’ll be focusing on the legislative and regulatory aspects of data privacy and cyber-security at the federal, state and international level. He is laying the groundwork for a new data privacy daily report that CQ will start sending to Thomson Reuters March 1.

A native of Chicago, Merrion graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana with an English major(and a minor in mathematics, is active in the National Press Club and a Nationals fan.

Thomson Reuters has a relationship with CQ to provide stories for a series of reports that Westlaw offers to its clients in several practitioner specialties, such as banking, insurance and securities, with data privacy being the newest one.

Merrion was Washington Bureau Chief for Crain’s Chicago Business from its inception in 1978 until the bureau was closed March 2015 to reduce costs.

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.