Dallas Morning News loses two biz reporters as part of layoffs

Jeff Mosier and Karen Robinson-Jacobs

The Dallas Morning News laid off two business reporters as part of its layoffs that are trimming 40 positions — 20 in the newsroom.

The two who were cut are energy and environment reporter Jeff Mosier and retail and real estate reporter Karen Robinson-Jacobs.

Mosier is a 23-year veteran of The Dallas Morning News with experience in almost every news beat. He’s covered dozens of local governments — cities, school district and counties — as well as crime, civil and criminal trials, Congressional races, charter schools, sports business and fandom and the early days of Barnett Shale fracking.

He’s a graduate of the University of Texas-Arlington, and his wife is also a Morning News staffer.

Robinson-Jacobs spent nearly 15 years covering the hospitality industry in North Texas before switching to the real estate beat. Before coming to the Dallas, she spent 15 years at the Los Angeles Times.

She is a graduate of the University of Illinois.

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.