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Giangreco departs Capitol Forum

Leigh Giangreco

Leigh Giangreco is a correspondent covering defense contracting for Capitol Forum, is leaving the news organization.

Her last day is Thursday. She has been with Capitol Forum since January 2018.

I plan on freelancing while looking for a gig that focuses on style/culture, something I’ve always liked covering,” she wrote on Twitter.

Giangreco covered issues related to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Prior to joining The Capitol Forum, Giangreco reported on military aviation in the Americas for FlightGlobal, a British aerospace magazine, and US Air Force procurement for Inside Defense.

She previously covered the Delaware beaches as a community reporter for Gannett and interned in USA Today’s investigative unit while a student at American University.

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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