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Houston Chronicle econ reporter DePillis leaves for CNNMoney

Lydia DePillis

Lydia DePillis, an economics reporter for the Houston Chronicle, is leaving the paper for a job at CNNMoney.

She will also be covering the economy for the website and starts Monday. DePillis had been at the Chronicle since May 2016.

On Twitter, she wrote, “I know this is cliche, but it really has been an privilege to work with the staff here, in an amazing city with so much verve and heart.”

Previously, she was a business reporter at the Washington Post for nearly three years, a technology writer at The New Republic, and real estate columnist at the Washington City Paper, where she authored its award-winning Housing Complex blog.

Lydia is a native of Seattle, Washington and attended Columbia University in New York City, where she spent most of her time blogging. Her work has also appeared in the New York Observer, Pacific Standard, Slate, and various trade publications, and she has appeared on a wide variety of radio and television stations.

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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