San Antonio daily hires Diamond to cover energy and manufacturing

Randy Diamond

The San Antonio Express-News has hired longtime business journalist Randy Diamond to cover the energy industry and manufacturing.

He will be covering oil and gas companies based in Texas as well as CPS Energy, the largest municipally owned utility in the U.S., and major manufacturers such as Toyota..

He also continues to write about asset management, public pension plans and travel on a freelance basis.

Diamond has worked for a variety of publications, including The New York Daily News, The Record in northern New Jersey, The Tampa Tribune, The Palm Beach Post, Pensions & Investments and Chief Investment Officer.

He left Pensions & Investments in January 2018 and has been freelancing since then.

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.