S&P Global hires Bennett as an energy reporter

Abbie Bennett

S&P Global Markets has hired Abbie Bennett as a reporter covering energy and the environment.

She will start next week.

Bennett has been covering Capitol Hill, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Pentagon for “Connecting Vets,” an online national news service for CBS Radio (later purchased by Entercom, now called Audacy), where she produces enterprise and beat reporting, appears as a regular guest on radio shows and podcasts, edits stories for a team of reporters, manages social media and newsletters and serves as a producer for the website and national news service.

She previously spent three years at The (Raleigh) News & Observer covering Johnston County and Smithfield, and then as one of its real-time news reporters.

She was also a reporter at The Daily Reflector in Greenville, North Carolina, for three years.

Bennett is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, where she majored in journalism.

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.