Edwards leaving Argus Media for new energy journalism job

Rowena Edwards

Rowena Edwards, a senior news reporter at Argus Media, is leaving the news organization for a new job in energy journalism.

Her last day is Monday.

Edwards has been at Argus for more than seven years in London. For the past two years, she has been its primary Iraq correspondent. She previously was deputy editor of oil products and senior Middle East correspondent.

As a senior reporter, she frequently traveled to the Middle East, North Africa and Europe to meet with oil ministry officials. This included meetings with the Iraqi oil minister and senior oil officials in Baghdad.

Edwards holds a bachelor’s degree from Durham University.

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.