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Fortune hires Blum to be energy editor

Jordan Blum

Fortune has hired Jordan Blum as its energy editor.

He is based in Houston.

Blum previously was editorial director for Hart Energy and senior oil editor for S&P Global. He also spent nearly five years at the Houston Chronicle as its energy reporter.

He also worked at the Houston Business Journal. Blum was Washington bureau chief for The Advocate in Washington, D.C., where he reported on politics and regulation, including energy. Before that, he served six years for The Advocate in Baton Rouge, La., where he covered higher education, as well as key impact stories, including Deepwater Horizon and Hurricane Katrina.

Blum majored in journalism at Texas Christian University.

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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.

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