MLex reporter Fillion moves to full-time antitrust beat

Max Fillion

Max Fillion, an MLex reporter who had been covering trade, data privacy, antitrust and other regulation, will now cover antitrust as a full-time beat.

On Twitter, Fillion wrote, “This means we’re hiring a reporter for the DC Bureau! The job is perfect for recent J School grads. I’ve had an excellent time in this position & MLex is a top-notch news agency.”

Fillion has been with MLex in Washington since June. He graduated in 2018 from the University of Missouri with a degree in journalism.

While in school, Fillion worked for the Columbia Missourian as a public life reporter and as a statehouse reporter. He also interned for MLex in Brussels in 2017.

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.