Webb named Houston Chronicle’s renewable energy reporter

Shelby Webb

Shelby Webb has been named the renewable energy reporter on the Houston Chronicle business news desk.

Webb will start her new beat in May. She has been covering suburban education for the paper.

“I can’t wait to learn more and see how the transition to renewable energy will reshape Houston and the country as a whole,” she wrote on Twitter.

Webb previously worked as an education reporter with the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida from 2013 to 2016 and attended the University of Florida.

Webb was part of the Chronicle team that was a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Breaking News Reporting for covering Hurricane Harvey and its immediate aftermath.

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.