LA Business First hires Sami to cover commercial real estate

Isabel Sami

Los Angeles Business First has hired Isabel Sami to cover commercial real estate and economic development.

Business First is an online-only publication of American City Business Journals.

Sami has been a reporter at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette in Massachusetts since January 2021. She previously worked at the Somerville Times in Massachusetts.

She is an Emerson College graduate.

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.