Washington Post taps Telford as breaking biz news reporter

Taylor Telford

Washington Post business editor David Cho and deputy business editor Zachary Goldfarb sent out the following announcement:

We’re happy to announce that Taylor Telford will become our newest business breaking news reporter.
Taylor has distinguished herself with stellar coverage of a wide range of business stories since she joined us last fall after completing an internship in Style. She’s written about furloughed workers selling belongings on Craigslist during the shutdown, the ups and downs of the stock market, pop-up stores, the Marriott hack and many other topics.
Taylor will be part of a growing general assignment team charged with producing urgent and compelling coverage of business news.
She previously interned at the Tampa Bay Times and the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass.
Originally from Cincinnati, she graduated from Indiana University-Bloomington, where she majored in journalism and Spanish.

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.