CoStar Group hires Yermal as senior copy editor

Brian Yermal

Real estate news service CoStar Group has hired Brian Yermal as senior copy editor.

He previously spent six years at Morning Consult as research editor, news editor and copy editor.

Yermal also spent more than four years at the Altoona Mirror in Pennsylvania as a copy editor and a writer.

He is a graduate of Penn State University in journalism.

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.