Categories: OLD Media Moves

Zakaria, Reuters reporter with WMD scoop, leaving news agency

Tabassum Zakaria, the Reuters reporter who was the first to report that the Bush administration found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, is leaving the news agency.

She is one of the journalists being pruned with buyout offers aimed at cutting Reuters costs.

Zakaria covers national security. She used to run the Front Row Washington politics blog, was a White House correspondent during President George W. Bush’s second term, and has covered intelligence, defense, foreign policy, and Congress.

As Dallas correspondent she covered the stand-off in Waco. Her early years in New York were spent covering financial markets and the New York Fed.

She has been at Reuters since May 1989 and is a New York University graduate.

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.