Econ reporter O’Brien leaves Washington Post

Matt O'Brien

Matt O’Brien

Matt O’Brien, an economics reporter at the Washington Post for the past five years, has left the newspaper.

O’Brien is writing a book about the global economy.

He joined the Post in March 2014, joining Wonkblog as its lead voice on economic affairs. he came from The Atlantic, where he was a senior associate editor and has developed a reputation as one of journalism’s top young thinkers on the economy, business and policy.

O’Brien graduated from Harvard in 2008 with a degree in history and a secondary concentration in government. In college he co-founded an online gaming startup and spent time in the tech incubator world of Silicon Valley before heading back east for journalism.

He worked at SB Nation and The New Republic before joining The Atlantic in 2012.

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.