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Triangle Biz Journal hires Tobin to cover real estate

Ben Tobin

The Triangle Business Journal has hired Ben Tobin to cover commercial real estate and economic development.

He has been covering Wal-Mart and other large retailers for Business Insider.

“I’ve deeply missed local news. I cannot wait to roll up my sleeves and work with such a talented team,” wrote Tobin on Twitter.

Tobin has been a business reporter at the Louisville Courier-Journal. While at the Courier-Journal, he was part of a reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its work investigating former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s controversial pardons and commutations.

He is a University of Virginia graduate, where he majored in political honors and media studies.

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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