Dallas Morning News hires Womack to cover retail

Brian Womack

The Dallas Morning News has hired Brian Womack to cover retail.

He previously was at the Dallas Business Journal covering technology and a senior marketing writer at Amazon Web Services.

Womack previously worked as one of Bloomberg’s reporters in San Francisco, spending nine years covering companies such as Alphabet, eBay, Facebook, HP, Oracle, Twitter and Yahoo.

Prior to that, he was as a reporter at Investor’s Business Daily, the Orange County Business Journal and the Dayton Business Journal.

He graduated with a B.A. in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1996.

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.