San Antonio Report biz and tech reporter Cunningham named Evans fellow

Waylon Cunningham

Texas-based journalist and photographer Waylon Cunningham has been selected as the first fellow of the Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship in Investigative Journalism at Reuters.

Cunningham – who is currently a reporter at the San Antonio Report – will receive a fellowship with Durham University beginning in early 2023 that involves pursuing a six-to-nine-month investigative project from inside the Reuters newsroom in London. He will be mentored by top Reuters editors in the field and have access to Durham university academics and research resources.

Cunningham, 29, has published his work in the Los Angeles Times, the Austin Chronicle, the Texas Observer, the Liberty Hill Independent and the Maryville Daily Times.

His current beat at the San Antonio Report is business and technology.

He studied data science and new media storytelling at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism, where he was the 2020 Selden Ring Fellow for Investigative Journalism.

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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.