“Marketplace” names Seabrook its DC bureau chief

Andrea Seabrook

Andrea Seabrook has been named the Washington bureau chief for the public radio business news show “Marketplace.”

Seabrook worked at National Public Radio from 2001 to 2012 and was its long-time Congressional correspondent from the U.S. Capitol. She also worked as a host of its top shows, including “All Things Considered,” “Weekend Edition,” “The Diane Rehm Show” and “Talk of the Nation.”

After leaving NPR, Seabrook created the ground-breaking “DecodeDC” podcast. It was acquired by E.W. Scripps in 2013. Seabrook left Scripps in 2015.

Seabrook is “thrilled to find a home among journalists who share her life-long goal: producing journalism that is accessible and conversational while providing extraordinary depth and context.”

She is a graduate of Earlham College.

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.