Energy reporter Elliott switching to Tesla beat for WSJ

Rebecca Elliott

Wall Street Journal reporter Rebecca Elliott is moving to the Tesla and car technology beat starting Monday.

She has been covering energy for the past 18 months.

Elliott was hired in 2018 from the Houston Chronicle, where she covered City Hall, having previously written about local politics, namely the 2015 Houston mayor’s race.

She joined the Chronicle in 2014 as a crime and general assignment reporter in Fort Bend County. A New York City native, she also has reported on politics for Reuters, Politico and BuzzFeed.

Elliott is a graduate of Harvard 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.