OLD Media Moves

Dallas daily moving DiFurio to consumer companies beat

Dom DiFurio

The Dallas Morning News is moving Dom DiFurio to the consumer companies beat.

Business editor Paul O’Donnell writes, “Dom has written about virtually every business subject imaginable in his two years on breaking news.

“He’s reported on evictions taking place in North Texas, even though a federal order suspended kicking renters out. He landed an interview with advertising legend Stan Richards after his namesake Dallas firm found itself in an imbroglio over the founder’s racially insensitive remarks. Dom profiled Dallas’ Victor Vescovo before the private equity executive set out to explore the deepest points in five oceans.

“And he teamed with two former Dallas Morning News staffers to break a national story about U.S. pilots’ concerns over safety flaws in the Boeing 737 Max. Their work won a best-in-business breaking news award from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and heightened scrutiny of the plane-maker following two crashes that killed 346 people.

“He’ll now turn his keen eye to the companies competing for your hard-earned money. His move couldn’t come at a better time, as pent-up demand from the pandemic is expected to explode this summer in a torrent of spending. Starbucks’ CEO describes it as a long-awaited ‘human reconnection.’ Consumer spending, after all, accounts for about 70% of our nation’s economy.”

Read more here.

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.

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