Seattle Times moves Long to Amazon beat

Katherine Long

Seattle Times real estate reporter Katherine Long is moving to a new beat — covering Amazon.com.

She also covered the Port of Seattle.

“It’s bittersweet to move off the real estate beat. But plenty of Amazon news *is* real estate news, especially around Seattle,” she wrote on Twitter.

She was a researcher for Vox Media prior to joining the Times in 2019. Long was also an editorial intern at The Stranger.

Long has reported from Central Asia, Turkey and Cyprus, among other countries. She has also garnered awards such as a Fulbright Research Award, and she was a Marshall Scholarship finalist, as well. Long graduated from Brown University in 2015, where she was a senior staff writer for Brown Daily Herald.

Long also graduated from the Columbia Journalism School’s investigative specialization in 2019.

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.