Categories: OLD Media Moves

Ex-NYTimes energy reporter Wald joins Nuclear Energy Institute

Matthew Wald, an energy reporter at the New York Times who took a buyout in December, has been hired to work at the Nuclear Energy Institute.

His job will be senior director of policy analysis and strategic planning, and he will start April 13.

Hannah Northey of the Governors Wind Energy Coalition writes, “Wald said in an email that he took a buyout from the Times in December when the paper was offering incentives for long-time employees and he became eligible for a full retirement.

“He had been a reporter at the paper since 1977, and has covered the nuclear industry extensively.

“Wald was part of a team whose coverage of the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan was named as a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.

“He has also toured more than two dozen power reactors and research reactors, as well as the now-abandoned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, according to the newspaper’s website.”

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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.