NY Times BizDay staffers joining politics team

New York Times Reporters and editors from the New York Times business news desk have been assigned to the paper’s Politics team for 2018.

They are:

Bill Brink, one of the paper’s most versatile editors, who most recently led the Pulitzer-winning investigation of Bill O’Reilly, will be a senior politics editor focused on news and enterprise. He has been the business news desk’s media editor and its retail and consumer editor.

Sydney Ember, a Business Day reporter covering print and digital media, who previously worked on DealBook and covered advertising. She is a former analyst at BlackRock’s Financial Markets Advisory group and a graduate of Brown University.

Danny Hakim, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and former Albany bureau chief, who will split time between Politics and Business Day. In early 2017, Hakim moved his investigative job to New York from London to participate in BizDay’s coverage of the business dimensions of the Trump administration.

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.