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Reuters names specialist economics editor

Stella Dawson has been named to the new post of U.S. specialist economics editor for Reuters, based in Washington, according to an announcement Friday.

Dawson has covered international economic issues and the Federal Reserve in Washington, running Reuters’ treasury desk in New York, leading its European Central Bank file from Frankfurt and has served as global economics editor.

Most recently, Dawson has been Top News editor for the Americas.

Dawson will focus on producing agenda-setting stories about the U.S. economy at a time of immense challenges for U.S. policymakers, investors and businesses. She plans to use her experience to write deeply reported initiative stories that set the agenda on one of the most competitive news stories in the world.

An experienced television reporter, Dawson also will help raise Reuters’ profile through TV appearances and panels. She will report to Tim Ahmann, economics editor in chief in Washington. Reporting to her will be Lucia Mutikani and Jason Lange who cover the bulk of the U.S. economic data from Washington.

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.