Sean Mussenden joined Media General News Service in June 2005 as a national correspondent in the Washington bureau. He concentrates on issues that affect the elderly and the young.

Mussenden came to Media General from the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel’s state capital bureau in Tallahassee. During his tenure at that paper, he traveled Florida and the Southeast covering a variety of subjects – state and national politics, the Walt Disney Co., NASCAR, multiple hurricanes and the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia.

The Washington, D.C.-area native previously worked for The (Annapolis, Md.) Capital, Capital News Service, and American Journalism Review magazine. He graduated from Maryland's St. Mary's College with a bachelor's degree. He has a master's degree from the University of Maryland.