HousingWire hires Kearns as an editor

Deborah Kearns

HousingWire has hired Deborah Kearns as an editor.

She previously has been freelancing and was director of communications for Finance of America.

Kearns also worked as a mortgage and real estate writer for NerdWallet and as real estate editor at Bankrate.com.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida and a master’s degree from Ball State 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.