WSJ energy reporter Ailworth becoming Midwest correspondent

Erin Ailworth

Erin Ailworth, an energy reporter for The Wall Street Journal, is becoming a Midwest correspondent for the paper.

She will also cover natural disasters and will be based in Chicago.

Ailworth has been with The Journal since August 2014 in Houston covering renewable energy, and she previously covered independent U.S. oil and gas producers focused on drilling in the nation’s shale regions.

She joined The Journal from the Boston Globe, where she worked for nearly seven years writing about energy, clean technology, and utilities as a member of the Globe’s business desk. Prior to that, she worked in the paper’s North Shore bureau covering the cities of Salem, Haverhill, and Malden.

Ailworth also worked at the Orlando Sentinel. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

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.