SF Chronicle energy reporter Morris adds climate change to his beat

J.D. Morris

San Francisco Chronicle energy reporter J.D. Morris is adding climate change to his beat.

He will still write about energy, but with a broader focus on policy, green tech, decarbonization and disasters such as fires and earthquakes.

He previously worked at the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat covering energy and transportation.

Morris was part of the Pulitzer-winning team who won recognition for the Press-Democrat’s coverage of the Wine Country fires.

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.