CoStar hires Shih as data visual journalist

Nicole Shih

Real estate news service CoStar News has hired Nicole Shih to be a data visualization journalist.

She will start next month and be based in Washington.

Shih is currently a news reporter at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette in Massachusetts, where she has been since January 2021.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from National Taipei University of Education and a master’s in journalism from DePaul University.

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.