Bomberger, longtime biz journalist, leaves Houston Chronicle

Paul Bomberger, a longtime business journalist, has left his editing position at the Houston Chronicle after a year with the paper.

Bomberger had led the paper’s coverage of health care, transportation, science, the environment and the business of higher education.

Bomberger is pursuing new newsroom or communications leadership opportunities.

Previously, he was an assistant business editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, managing the paper’s daily print and digital business section and the Sunday Automotive section, and managing editor of Business Insurance, a publication formerly owned by Crain Communications.

Earlier in his career, he was a business editor in South Florida at the Palm Beach Post and Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale.

Through the years, Bomberger and his reporters have won numerous state and national awards for business, investigative, digital and legal reporting. A native Pennsylvanian, he’s a proud journalism alum of Temple University in Philadelphia.