Reuters hires Douglas to cover ag and energy policy

Leah Douglas

Reuters has hired Leah Douglas to cover food and energy policy.

She is currently a staff writer and associate editor at the Food and Environment Reporting Network. Her reporting has been published in the Guardian, the Nation, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, NPR, the American Prospect, Time, and other outlets.

Douglas has been interviewed for numerous podcasts and radio shows, including the CBS Weekend News Roundup and Vox’s Future Perfect, and appeared in an episode of Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines that was nominated for a 2021 News Emmy.

Her reporting has been cited in dozens of print and television media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, AP, NBC Nightly News, and John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight.”

She previously worked at New America and the Open Markets Institute. Douglas is a Brown University graduate.

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.