Categories: OLD Media Moves

Houston Chronicle energy reporter leaves for hospital PR job

Rhiannon Meyers, an energy reporter at the Houston Chronicle, has left the newspaper for a communications job at the Memorial Hermann health care system.

Her last day was Thursday.

Meyers joined the Chronicle in July 2014, and she covered petrochemicals, refining, liquefied natural gas, gasoline and diesel pricing. Before that, she was an investigative reporter for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, where she worked for almost four years. While there, she led coverage of a yearlong series investigating the Type 2 diabetes epidemic in Texas. She was selected as one of five journalists nationwide to receive Association of Health Care Journalists’ Health Care Performance Reporting Fellowship.

Meyers previously worked at the Galveston County Daily News and the Tyler Morning Telegraph, two other papers in Texas. She is a graduate of Texas A&M 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.