San Antonio Biz Journal hires McCandless to cover real estate

James McCandless

The San Antonio Business Journal has hired James McCandless as a commercial real estate reporter.

He started on Monday.

McCandless previously was a fellow at Newsweek covering the automotive industry. He also spent three years as a reporter for Distressed Debt Daily and Preferred Stock Daily newsletters.

He also interned for the San Antonio Report.

McCandless is a graduate of St. Mary’s University.

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.