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NY Times’ Dealbook hires Livni to cover politics, law from DC

Ephrat Livni

The New York Times’ Dealbook has hired Ephrat Livni to cover politics, policy and law from the paper’s Washington bureau.

Livni was a senior law and politics reporter at Quartz, most notably covering the Supreme Court and impeachment proceedings. She also contributed culture, science, and technology stories from 2016 to 2020.

As a public defender, Livni represented indigent clients in the Palm Beach County jail overlooking Trump’s $44 million golf course. She was a document review attorney at Google, served in the Peace Corps in Senegal, was a French interpreter at Human Rights First, taught English in Japan, did a stint as a street artist, and wrote for ABC News and The Jerusalem Report.

Her writing has also appeared in Forge, OneZero, and Lion’s Roar.

Livni has a BS in journalism from Boston University, an MA in Islamic Studies from Columbia University, and a Juris Doctor from City University of New York law school.

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.

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