Houston Biz Journal hires Burleson to cover energy

Emily Burleson

The Houston Business Journal has hired Emily Burleson to cover energy.

Managing editor Jonathan Adams writes, “Burleson will cover all aspects of Houston’s energy industry, which includes upstream, midstream, downstream and the professionals behind them. She will also focus on the energy transition.

“Burleson joins the HBJ from Platts, where she spent the past two years reporting and writing breaking news on the energy industry. There, she primarily covered petrochemicals. Although she is one of HBJ’s latest beat reporters, she is not new to the company as she was previously an intern from January to May 2019.

“Burleson, a Houston native, is a graduate of the University of Houston, where she served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Cougar.”

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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.