Law360 hires Jax Business Journal reporter Godwin

Brent Godwin

Jacksonville Business Journal real estate reporter Brent Godwin has been hired by Law360 as a reporter.

He will start later this month.

Godwin has been covering commercial real estate and residential real estate throughout metro Jacksonville.

Godwin prevoiusly spent the better part of a decade at the Birmingham Business Journal. He started there as the summer intern, then was research director, later promoted to online editor. He was then the commercial real estate reporter and then real estate editor.

He was also director of email operations at Cahaba Media Group. Godwin is an Auburn University 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.