Peña to cover growth and infrastructure for KERA

Pablo Arauz Peña

Pablo Arauz Peña, the breaking news reporter for KERA News, is now covering growth and infrastructure.

Peña got his start in public media as a KERA news intern in 2014. Since then, his journalism has taken him to Hollywood and Alaska and back. After graduating from The University of Texas at Arlington in 2018, he covered celebrity news and red carpet events fortThe Associated Press in Los Angeles as an entertainment reporter intern. He also worked throughout Southern California as a freelance news producer for NPR member station KCRW.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Peña spent more than a year in Alaska where he covered education, local government and Indigenous communities for KTOO Public Media, the NPR member station in Juneau.

He won an award for a historical piece on the parallels between the recent pandemic to the 1918 influenza pandemic and its impact on Indigenous communities.

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.