Houston Chronicle hires Diamond as business editor

Jonathan Diamond

The Houston Chronicle has hired Jonathan Diamond to be its business editor.

He has been West Coast editor of real estate news service CoStar Group and previously was deputy business editor at the Chronicle.

An announcement to the Chronicle staff stated, “In his 2 1/2 years on the Chronicle’s business desk, Jonathan was responsible for Texas Inc., working with our reporters and freelancers to come up with engaging deep dives into trends and personalities important to the Houston business community and collaborating with the photo and design desks to make those stories visually engaging.

“Working with the team on dailies, he led the real estate and retail reporters as well as our tech coverage. He’s looking forward to ensuring we’re serving both the business community and readers interested in how business effects their lives.”

Diamond was previously the editor in chief of the Los Angeles Business Journal. He first joined the Chronicle in January 2019.

He has a master’s degree in public policy from UCLA and a bachelor’s in journalism from Boston University.

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.