Politico’s Mueller moves to labor beat

Eleanor Mueller

Politico reporter Eleanor Mueller, who has been covering employment, is moving to the labor beat at the publication.

She has been reporting on legislation, as well as labor policy: specifically, the pandemic economy, how it is affecting workers, particularly those already at a systemic disadvantage, and what their elected officials are doing to address it.

Prior to joining Politico, she reported out of newsrooms across Washington., including those of Sinclair, CNN, McClatchy and USA Today.

She graduated from the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism in 2017 with a double major in multiplatform (print) journalism and government & politics. While there, she also reported for the University of Maryland’s Capital News Service and The Diamondback.

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.