E&E News hires Houston Chronicle’s Webb

Shelby Webb

E&E News has hired Houston Chronicle reporter Shelby Webb to cover oil and gas.

Webb will start Jan. 31.

She has been the renewable energy reporter on the Houston Chronicle business news desk.

Webb previously covered suburban education for the paper. Webb previously worked as an education reporter with the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida from 2013 to 2016 and attended the University of Florida.

Webb was part of the Chronicle team that was a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Breaking News Reporting for covering Hurricane Harvey and its immediate aftermath.

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.