CoStar hires Brooks as a New York residential reporter

Khristopher Brooks

Real estate news service CoStar News has hired Khristophr J. Brooks as a reporter covering New York residential real estate.

He has been at CBS Moneywatch for the past five years covering economic disparities for the personal finance website.

Before that, he had been covering town government for Newsday.

Brooks previously covered innovation and entrepreneurship for the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York. He has also worked for the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, the Omaha World-Herald and the Bristol Herald-Courier in Virginia.

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.