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Energy reporter Handy leaves Houston Chronicle

Ryan Maye Handy

Ryan Maye Handy, an energy reporter at the Houston Chronicle, has left the newspaper and returned to Colorado.

Handy joined the Chronicle in October 2016.

She covered the regulation of utilities and oil and gas in Texas.  She followed the Railroad Commission of Texas, the state’s oil and gas regulator, and the Public Utility Commission, and tracked trends in renewable energy growth across the state.

She came to the Chronicle from Colorado, where she worked as a reporter for nearly six years covering energy and the environment, county government and natural disaster recovery for the Colorado Springs Gazette and Fort Collins Coloradoan.

Handy graduated from Georgetown University with degrees in Russian and comparative literature. She received her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia 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.

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