Austin transportation reporter moving to Dallas Morning News

Chase Rodgers

Chase Rogers, who covers transportation for the Austin American-Statesman, is moving to the Dallas Morning News as a breaking news reporter.

He previously covered local government and environmental issues for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times in South Texas. Before then, he was a crime and courts reporter for the Victoria Advocate.

At the Caller-Times, he produced an award-winning series of stories exploring the unexpected impacts and construction delays of a $1 billion bridge replacement project overseen by the Texas Department of Transportation. His coverage shed light on the poor outcomes for neighborhoods hemming the new bridge’s path, a heated dispute between the Texas DOT and the developer over the bridge’s proposed design, and Texas DOT’s sluggishness to release information under the Texas Public Information Act.

He attended Texas State University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications.

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.