Matthews named deputy US energy editor at WSJ

Christopher Matthews has been named deputy U.S. energy editor at The Wall Street Journal.

He will continue to write and report.

Matthews covers the oil and gas industry in Houston for The Journal. He previously covered white collar crime, law enforcement and courts in New York City. He also has written for the WSJ’s Risk and Compliance Journal in Washington, D.C.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Kenyon College and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.

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.