Real Deal reporter James leaving for WSJ

Cordilia James

Cordilia James, a reporter for The Real Deal in New York, is leaving the real estate news organization to join The Wall Street Journal.

She will be working with Journal personal tech correspondent Joanna Stern.

James previously interned at the Journal as a life and arts reporter and also freelanced for the organization. She also interned for WAMU and The Washingtonian.

James is an American University graduate in journalism.

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.