Ex-USA Today markets reporter finds work at National Geographic

Gary Strauss, a former markets reporter at USA Today who took a buyout a year ago, has found work at National Geographic.

Strauss is a project manager for branded content at National Geographic. It’s a six-month contract but could lead to something more permanent down the road.

“Nice to be working full-time again,” said Strauss in an email to Talking Biz News.

Strauss had been at USA Today since 1992, spending time as a reporter on the Money desk, as the advertising and marketing editor, as an entertainment reporter and as an editor on the Money team.

Before joining USA Today, he was the business editor of the Stockton Record in California.

Stockton is a University of Colorado 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.