News & Observer hires Moore to cover real estate and business

Mary Helen Moore

The (Raleigh) News & Observer has hired Mary Helen Moore to cover real estate and business.

She started on Monday.

Moore has been covering Volusia County government and environmental issues for the Daytona Beach News-Journal in Florida. She also reported on breaking news, the criminal justice system and environmental issues for three Gannett papers in Florida and USA Today.

She grew up in eastern North Carolina and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill before moving to Florida in 2017.

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.