Kopecki named business editor at San Antonio daily

Dawn Kopecki

Dawn Kopecki, a Bloomberg News reporter who wrote a memo criticizing its Washington operations earlier this year, has been hired as business editor of the San Antonio Express-News.

A story on its website by Patrick Danner states, “Kopecki, 44, has stood out as one of the top banking reporters and housing finance reporters in the country, often leading national coverage of the failures and federal takeovers of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

“‘Dawn is a big-league talent, with a national reputation for high-quality, news-breaking reporting,” Express-News Editor Mike Leary said. ‘She’s adept in print, digitally and as a TV commentator. She’ll have a strong impact on our daily business report, guaranteeing that it’ll be essential reading — and viewing.’

“At the Express-News, Kopecki will lead a staff of 11 reporters and editors.

“‘I want the business staff of the San Antonio Express-News to be the source that all local executives go to for information,’ Kopecki said. ‘I want us to be the dominant news site in the area for business coverage.'”

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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.