CoStar hires Leipzig as data visual journalist

Parker Leigh Leipzig

Real estate news service CoStar has hired Parker Leigh Leipzig as a data visual journalist.

She is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland, where she was a staff writer and a data reporter for The Diamondback, the student newspaper.

Leipzig also interned at CNN as a a digital data and graphics intern and Capital News Service as a reporter.

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.