Philly Inquirer assistant biz editor joins Houston paper

Paul Bomberger

The Houston Chronicle has hired Philadelphia Inquirer assistant business editor Paul Bomberger as a metropolitan editor.

Bomberger will manage its coverage of health and medicine, science and the NASA Space Center, transportation and education.

A graduate of Temple University, Bomberger started his career at the Intelligencer Journal, where he spent 15 years as a business reporter and its first business editor.

Bomberger next was an assistant business editor at the Palm Beach Post and deputy business editor at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

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.