Inman News hires LaTrace as senior reporter

AJ LaTrace

AJ LaTrace has been hired a senior reporter covering housing trends, brokerage news and the business of residential real estate at Inman News.

For more than a decade he has covered all aspects of the real estate industry, regularly interviewing CEOs and industry leaders while reporting on major trends and breaking news across the U.S. housing market.

He previously held reporting and editorial roles at Business Insider, Chicago magazine and Vox Media’s Curbed.

LaTrace is based in Chicago. He holds a bachelor’s degree 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.