MLex hires Merrion from CQ Roll Call

Paul Merrion

Longtime Washington business reporter Paul Merrion has been hired by MLEx to help it launch a new service.

In an email Friday to friends, Merrion wrote:

CQ Roll Call. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed covering the data privacy and cybersecurity beat as well as working the great folks here at CQ over the last 16 months or so.
On July 10, I’m starting a new gig as the founder and senior correspondent of White House Watch, a new online publication by MLex Market Insight, a London-based international online business news service owned by LexisNexis. It’s going to be a real adventure. I’ll still be in downtown DC, at 18^th and Eye Streets.

Before CQ Roll Call, Merrion was Washington bureau chief for Crain Communications and the Crain’s Chicago Business publication.

A native of Chicago, Merrion graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana with an English major and a minor in mathematics, and he is active in the National Press Club.

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.