Albuquerque Biz First hires Metts to cover real estate

Cooper Metts

Albuquerque Business First has hired Cooper Metts to cover commercial and residential real estate.

He earned bachelor’s degrees in media/journalism and economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most recently, he was a business reporting intern at the Charlotte Observer.

Metts also interned for Business North Carolina magazine and reported on economic development and business for The Chatham News + Record.

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.