Boston Globe hires Brinker to cover housing

Andrew Brinker

The Boston Globe has hired Andrew Brinker to be a business reporter covering housing.

He will also cover the cost of living in Boston.

He previously worked as a business intern, a weekend correspondent for the metro section, and as a co-op on the Express Desk. He has been the paper’s lead reporter on Massachusetts’ ambitious new multifamily housing law, dissected complex policy questions, and highlighted communities that are loath to build more housing.

Brinker graduated from Emerson College in 2022. He is from Western Pennsylvania.

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.