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The Messenger hires Jones as national real estate reporter

Sasha Jones

News startup The Messenger has hired Sasha Jones to cover national real estate stories.

She will start in two weeks.

Jones has been a reporter at the New York Business Journal, an American City Business Journals publication, covering economic development.

Prior to joining the New York Business Journal, Jones was a reporter for the The Real Deal, where she covered retail and residential real estate in New York City.

She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, where she participated in the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. Her undergraduate degree is from American University, where she majored in journalism with a minor in Law and Society.

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.

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