Dallas Morning News taps breaking biz news reporter

Dom DiFurio

The Dallas Morning News has named Dom DiFurio as its breaking business news reporter.

He will start his new position in 2019.

DiFurio joined The Morning News in 2015 as a social producer/digital editor, bridging the gap between the audience team and the editorial and commentary section. He helped the paper redefine itself as digital-first and moved to the core audience team in 2018.

Before joining the paper, DiFurio graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in 2015 with honors.

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.