Mahoney to cover energy and climate for Tampa Bay Times

Emily L. Mahoney

Tampa Bay Times political editor Emily Mahoney is moving to the energy and climate beat at the newspaper.

She has been political editor for the past two years. Before that, Mahoney was a real estate reporter at the Times. Before that, she was a Florida government reporter.

She was also a Cronkite data fellow at the Houston Chronicle and has interned at the Miami Herald Media Company, the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, and the Arizona Republic. She was also a reporting fellow at News21.

Mahoney graduated from Arizona State 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.