Dishman becomes biz editor at The Oklahoman

David Dishman

Business reporter David Dishman has been promoted to business editor at The Oklahoman, the daily newspaper in Oklahoma City.

He started his new position on Monday.

Dishman has worked as a journalist in Oklahoma since 2014 covering business, education, local government, health care and more. He worked as a reporter in southeast Oklahoma before joining the business team at The Oklahoman in 2017.

He is the winner of state and national awards for investigative reporting, business reporting and news coverage.

He covered general and retail business news for The Oklahoman.

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.