WSJ reporter Copeland takes on Texas business beat

Wall Street Journal reporter Rob Copeland has moved to Texas to cover business in that state.

He is based in Austin, with a broad remit to cover corporate stories in the nation’s second most populous state. He previously was in its San Francisco bureau covering Silicon Valley and tech companies for the past two years.

Copeland was previously a hedge-fund reporter for the paper’s Money & Investing section, where he broke news and wrote investigative features on some of the most secretive names in finance.

He has been at The Journal since 2013. Before that, he worked as a staff writer for Absolute Return, a hedge fund publication.

A history graduate of Duke University, Copeland first joined the Journal as an intern in 2009. He also interned at Bloomberg News.

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.