WSJ hires Findell to cover Texas

Elizabeth Findell

Elizabeth Findell, a reporter at the Austin American-Statesman, has been hired by the Wall Street Journal to cover Texas.

She will be based in Houston.

Findell has been with the Austin daily since April 2016. She previously covered Dallas City Hall for the Dallas Morning News and also worked at the Monitor covering seven cities along the U.S.-Mexico border.

She is a graduate of Colorado College.

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.