Reuters hires Johnson as economics reporter in Ottawa

Kelsey Johnson

Reuters has hired Kelsey Johnson to cover the Canadian economy from its Ottawa bureau.

She will start May 21.

She has been at iPolitics for the past six years as a parliamentary affairs reporter with a specialization in agriculture and trade policy issues at the federal and provincial level.

Johnson has also been a columnist for Western Producer Media.

She is a Carleton University graduate who once worked as a bear guardian in Banff National Park.

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.