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Forbes hires Everson to write “Checks & Imbalances” newsletter

Zach Everson

Zach Everson has been hired by  Forbes to be the writer of a new premium newsletter titled “Checks & Imbalances.”

The newsletter offers a look at politicians, their businesses and money moving around Washington, D.C. It launched on Monday.

Everson, who formerly authored a highly regarded Substack newsletter called “1100 Pennsylvania,” has spent the last four years reporting on Donald Trump and his Washington, D.C. hotel, which served as the epicenter of the swamp in the Trump era.

“As an independent journalist, Zach took on a competitive beat—Trump’s D.C. hotel—and outshined every major news outlet in the country,” said Dan Alexander, senior editor at Forbes, in a statement. “We’re thrilled to have him at Forbes and to see all the stories he will break on his new, expanded beat.

Everson has also been published in Vanity Fair, Politico, and ProPublica.

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.

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