Townsend, recently at Recode, to pursue ag/environmental reporting

Associate editor Tess Townsend, who left tech news site Recode last year, is now pursuing freelancing.

Townsend said on Twitter that she is moving to Sacramento to do water, agriculture and environmental reporting. She also plans to do copywriting for startups.

She covered Alphabet and Google for Recode before leaving this past summer. Before joining Recode, she covered tech and startups for Inc. magazine and reported on local government for newspapers including The Day in New London, Conn., and Roswell, New Mexico’s Roswell Daily Record.

She is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley. After college, she spent a year in China.

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.