Houston Biz Journal’s Patel departing for Axios

Shafaq Patel

The Houston Business Journal economic development reporter Shafaq Patel is leaving to help start a Houston newsletter for Axios.

She previously worked for the Business Journal’s parent company, the American City Business Journals, as a diversity, equity and inclusion reporter.

At Emerson College in Boston, where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Journalism, she served as creative director, managing editor and blog director at the university’s magazine.

Patel also interned at the Boston Business Journal.

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.