Texas Tribune hires Choi to be Washington correspondent

Matthew Choi

Matthew Choi, energy reporter and author of Morning Energy newsletter at Politico, has been hired by the Texas Tribune to be its Washington correspondent.

He starts this week.

Choi joined Politico as an editorial intern and then served as a web producer and breaking news reporter. Previously, he was a reporting fellow at the Texas Tribune.

Choi graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science.

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.