Lowrey to cover economic policy for The Atlantic

Annie Lowrey, who covers economic policy for New York magazine, has been hired by The Atlantic to cover the same beat.

Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, sent the following to the staff on Wednesday:

Some good news for you, amid all the other news: Annie Lowrey is joining us as a writer. She’ll focus on covering economic policy, principally with Becca and the Biz team. You’ll know Annie from her great work at The New York Times, New York mag, Slate, and elsewhere. I know she’s excited to be coming to The Atlantic now and working with everyone here. Annie lives in Washington, and she’ll be among us at the Watergate starting next week, so look forward to that.

Lowrey will start with The Atlantic next week, working on the team led by Business Editor Rebecca Rosen.

Aggressive reporting is driving all-time record audiences to The Atlantic: January set a new traffic record to TheAtlantic.com, with 32.7 million monthly unique visitors. Jan. 29 and Jan. 30 were the two biggest traffic days in the history of the site.

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.