Politico hires Bade to cover energy policy

Gavin Bade

Politico has hired Utility Dive senior reporter Gavin Bade to cover energy policy.

He will start in May.

“I’ve always admired Politico’s accountability journalism and have wanted to work there since my schooldays,” said Bade on Twitter. “I’m humbled by the opportunity and just want to put my best foot forward.”

Bade has been at Industry Dive since September 2014 and was one of the early employees at the company.

He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he was editor in chief of the Georgetown Voice.

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.