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CoStar hires Scheier to cover San Francisco market

Rachel Scheier

Real estate news service CoStar News has hired Rachel Scheier to cover the San Francisco commercial market.

She most recently was news editor at the San Francisco Standard.

Before that, she was a contributing writer for  Kaiser Health News. She was previously based in Cairo, where she covered Egypt for the Los Angeles Times. She was also the editor-in-chief of Egypt’s leading English-language business magazine.

Before moving to Cairo in 2012, Rachel lived in Kampala, Uganda, where she wrote features about the AIDS epidemic, women’s health and other issues in East Africa for the Boston Globe, Newsday, the Christian Science Monitor, Women’s e-News, and others.

She was also on staff at the New York Daily News, where she was an education reporter in the Queens bureau covering the nation’s largest school system. She also covered technology and the rise of the internet economy for the Daily News.

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.

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