Texas Public Radio hires Peck to cover tech and entrepreneurship

Joshua Peck

Texas Public Radio has hired Joshua Peck to cover technology and entrepreneurship.

He will start in August.

Peck is currently interning at ProPublica through a partnership with the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting.

Peck graduated in sociology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His reporting has focused on policing. He has worked with Texas Public Radio as an intern and freelancer for several years and is an alumnus of The New York Times Student Journalism Institute, where he produced a profile on the family of a victim of police violence.

Before that, he was a news editor at the Paisano, his university’s independent student newspaper.

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.