News & Observer hires Allam to cover real estate

Chantal Allam

The (Raleigh) News & Observer has hired Chantal Allam to cover real estate in the area.

Allam has been with Capitol Broadcasting Co. as a tech reporter, writing for WRAL Techwire.

Prior to her time at WRAL Techwire, she was a freelance producer/writer for over six years, and worked as a correspondent for various documentaries. She also worked as a television researcher for Seven Network Limited from June 2012 to October 2012.

Allam graduated from The University of Virginia in 1998 and holds a master’s degree from the University of Technology Sydney.

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.