Chris Roush

North Carolina

Founder at Talking Biz News

Hooman to Gus and Gracie. Husband of @shannongroush. Black Lives Matter.

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San Antonio biz reporter DiNatale leaving for California

3 days ago | talkingbiznews.com | Chris Roush

San Antonio Express-News business reporter Sara DiNatale is leaving the newspaper to cover politics for the San Francisco Chronicle. She covers energy, the Texas grid, ERCOT, CPS Energy, and labor for the Express-News. DiNatale joined the staff in 2023. She won a 2024 George Polk Award for her investigation on the Texas residential solar industry, “In Broad Daylight.” She spent six years in Florida at the Tampa Bay Times, where she covered breaking news before settling into business reporting.
Pacific Business News hires Noone as a reporter

3 days ago | talkingbiznews.com | Chris Roush

Virginia Noone has joined Pacific Business News in Honolulu as a reporter covering retail, restaurants and shipping and supply chain. She recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in critical and creative media, with a minor in journalism, from Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina. While there, she was a reporter and opinion editor at the student newspaper Old Gold & Black and interned at Wake Forest University Press.
Bloomberg chairman Grauer retires

3 days ago | talkingbiznews.com | Chris Roush

Bloomberg LP founder Michael Bloomberg sent out the following to the staff on Tuesday:Peter Grauer has decided to retire from Bloomberg after nearly 24 years of extraordinary leadership. When he shared this news with me, I felt both sadness and deep appreciation, sadness that we’ll lose his wise presence, and appreciation for everything he’s accomplished for our company.
WSJ hires Kessler as a data reporter

3 days ago | talkingbiznews.com | Chris Roush

The Wall Street Journal has hired Sam Kessler as a data reporter. Kessler has been CoinDesk’s deputy managing editor for tech and protocols. His reporting is focused on decentralized technology, infrastructure and governance. He holds a computer science degree from Harvard University, where he led the Harvard Political Review. He has a background in the technology industry and owns some ETH and BTC.
Texas Tribune hires Cobler to cover state economy

3 days ago | talkingbiznews.com | Chris Roush

The Texas Tribune has hired Paul Cobler to cover the state’s economy. He started on Monday. Cobler covered politics for the Houston Landing before it closed. He returned to Texas after covering city hall for The Advocate in Baton Rouge. During two-and-a-half years at the newspaper, he spearheaded local accountability reporting about a variety of topics and local agencies.
The Ankler hires Butler as chief of staff

3 days ago | talkingbiznews.com | Chris Roush

Entertainment industry site The Ankler has hired Kelly Fisher Butler as chief of staff. She will start July 21. Butler was at Vanity Fair, where she most recently served as director of editorial operations, leading teams across digital, print, and social, and overseeing coverage plans around tentpole moments including Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood Issue and Oscar Party.
Ex-Business Insider executive editor lands at NY Times

3 days ago | talkingbiznews.com | Chris Roush

Kieran Corcoran, a former executive editor at Business Insider before leaving earlier this year, has a new job at the New York Times. Corcoran is now an editor on the Express desk at the Times in its London bureau. He previously spent nearly eight years at Business Insider and was second-in-command in the UK, leading its bureau of around 50 journalists and managing around 20 of them directly. He oversaw news, health, and entertainment coverage.
Ritter departs Denver Business Journal

3 days ago | talkingbiznews.com | Chris Roush

Denver Business Journal real estate reporter Cassidy Ritter has left the publication. Ritter covered real estate, restaurants and retail. Prior to joining the Business Journal in 2023, she was an associate editor for online tech platform Built In where she oversaw the company’s local news coverage, including Colorado. She previously covered business news for 5280, Boulder Lifestyle, Denverite, Community Impact Newspaper and the Kansas City Business Journal.
Peled promoted to reporter at WSJ

3 days ago | talkingbiznews.com | Chris Roush

Anat Peled has been promoted to reporter at The Wall Street Journal. She was a news assistant. She is based in Tel Aviv and is covering Israel and the Palestinian Territories. She holds a master’s degree in modern European history from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree in history from Stanford University.
AP seeks an energy transition reporter in SE Asia

3 days ago | talkingbiznews.com | Chris Roush

Do you follow the green energy transition taking place in Southeast Asia, from investments in renewables to electrification of transportation to cleaner industry in major cities? Do you wonder if the Belt and Road Initiative will lead to greener infrastructure, or whether it will build in the use of more fossil fuel for decades? And finally, do you look at the claims by companies and countries through the lens of accountability to call out greenwashing or a lack of corporate governance?