Houston Business Journal names new energy reporter, retail reporter

The Houston Business Journal has named Emily Burleson as its new energy reporter and Savannah Mehrtens as its new retail and restaurants reporter.

Burleson will cover all aspects of Houston’s energy industry, which includes upstream, midstream, downstream and the professionals behind them. She will also focus on the energy transition.

Burleson joins the HBJ from Platts, where she spent the past two years reporting and writing breaking news on the energy industry. There, she primarily covered…